[OpenAFS] Linux packages for 1.5?

Andy Cobaugh phalenor@gmail.com
Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:51:04 -0400 (EDT)


On 2010-04-07 at 19:38, Simon Wilkinson ( sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk ) said:
>
> Those of us actively developing on Linux have been running the 1.5 series for 
> ages. The fact that other people are seeing problems would seem to indicate 
> that testing across a wider variety of systems is required. Unfortunately, we 
> don't have the time, or the systems, to do this by ourselves. If folk are 
> interested in getting a stable 1.5 (and 1.6) for Linux any time this 
> millenia, then we need more people testing the builds.
>
> This particularly applies to those running old, or non-standard kernels and 
> running on odd platforms and architectures. One of the bugs I fixed for Russ 
> surfaced exactly because he was running a kernel with slightly out of the 
> ordinary memory management.
>
> If RPM packages would help with this please let me know. So far all I have 
> heard is silence.

Yes, please - if not for every 1.5.x release, at least for the ones you 
want tested. I'm probably in a position here where I could start pushing
1.5 onto certain desktops/workstations around here, and having ready-made 
RPMs for 1.5 will make that task that much easier.

--andy