[OpenAFS] Re: Compiling openafs 1.4.12.1 SRPM on Red Hat EL 6

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Dale Pontius <pontius@btv.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 11:28 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:56:53 -0500
>> Rich Sudlow<rich@nd.edu> =A0wrote:
>>
>>> What is the magic incantation for compiling openafs 1.4.12.1
>>> SRPM on Red Hat 6?
>>
>> You cannot build a RHEL 6 SRPM from 1.4.12.1 vanilla. You need[0] to
>> apply the patches from these two commits:
>>
>>
>> <http://git.openafs.org/?p=3Dopenafs.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3D41040638e23be43e=
260f79a4694df528244ef38b>
>>
>> <http://git.openafs.org/?p=3Dopenafs.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3Dc2eba9d57adc79b0=
5165fc8aebaf751ea89282f5>
>>
>> And from there it should be possible to generate an SRPM like normal,
>> and it should build on RHEL6.
>
> At one point I thought I heard something about a 1.4.12.2 that would buil=
d
> on all platforms, including RHEL 6. =A0It obviously hasn't appeared, at l=
east
> not yet. =A0Will it appear, or is the plan to go straight to 1.6?

Something for 1.4 users will appear soon, as soon as we know what all
needs to be covered.

>>>
>>> Also is OpenAFS 1.6 coming from 1.4 or 1.5?
>>
>> 1.5.
>>
>> [0] Only the first one is technically necessary, but it requires some
>> additional finagling to work unless you apply both of them.
>>
> Is there a timeframe for 1.6, especially if there will be no 1.4.12.2? =
=A0(I'm
> currently running RHLE6 with a locally patched 1.4.12.1.)

There will be a 1.6 rc this week.