[OpenAFS] RPM questions

[ted creedon]

Recompile always works on SuSE.  10.0 ships with 1.3.87 which is obsolete.


Derek Atkins wrote:
>Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison@prodigy.net> writes:
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>>I have installed OpenAFS on Linux using the following:
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>>openafs-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm        I assume this is a 'base' rpm
>>openafs-client-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm    I assume this is client functionality
>>openafs-docs-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm        Documentation, not sure I even 
>>needed it
>>openafs-kernel-1.4.0-2.6.9_1.667_1.i586.rpm        I assume its the 
>>kernel "connectivity"
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>>Am I correct in my assumptions?
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>Yes.
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>>Didn't use these, what are they for?
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>>openafs-compat-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
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>Compatibility symlinks with Transarc/IBM AFS paths (/usr/afsws)
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>>openafs-kpasswd-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
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>The KAserver kpasswd program
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>>openafs-krb5-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
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>The Krb5 programs, aklog, asetkey, etc.
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>>Is there a rationale for supplying only Fedora/Red Hat on Linux?
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>Because that's all I have/care about, and nobody has asked me to
>support anything else and provided me the resources to support
>anything else.
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>>If I want to run OpenAFS on SuSE do I have to compile from source or can 
>>I use the Red Hat kernel version (assuming there is one) of OpenAFS 
>>corresponding to the SuSE kernel?
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>Unclear..  I've /tried/ to make the SPEC file general enough that
>you could rebuild it on any RPM based system..  So you SHOULD be
>able to rebuild the code on SuSE.  You DEFINITELY need to rebuild
>the kernel module.  You MAY need to rebuild the user-space.
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>>Thanks.
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>-derek
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