[OpenAFS] installing on CentOS

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:18:33 -0500


Here it is:
http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.10/

http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.10/openafs-1.4.10-1.1.1.src.rpm


David Bear wrote:
> Simon, I've been too busy to get back to this until now. I would like to try
> this method but I don't know where to find the src rpm list below. I assume
> building the kernel module this way implies we don't need to match all the
> kernel minor versions as rpmbuild will just 'do the right thing' and give me
> a kmod-openafs-1.4.10-1.1.2.6.18_x.y.z.el5.x86_64.rpm<http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.10/rhel5/x86_64/kmod-openafs-1.4.10-1.1.2.6.18_53.1.4.el5.x86_64.rpm>back
> which can then be installed. Looking at
> http://openafs.org/release/1.4.10/ I don't see were the source rpm is
> located..
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> You can try compiling your own kmod RPMs, but I can't recall the invocation
>>     
>>> to build it.
>>>
>>>       
>> rpmbuild -ba --define "fedorakmod 1" \
>>             --define "build_modules 1" \
>>             --define "build_userspace 0" \
>>             --define "osvers el5" \
>>             openafs-1.4.11-1.src.rpm
>>
>> will build a kernel module for the currently running kernel.
>>
>>
>>  Another problem is you'll have to deal with RPM signatures (i.e. add your
>>     
>>> own, or tell yum to ignore them or trust your key).
>>>
>>>       
>> You don't need signed rpms for yum, certainly not in RHEL. It will tell you
>> that it's installing an unsigned RPM, but will happily go ahead and do so
>> anyway.
>>
>> BTW: The build system is now back up and running.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>