[OpenAFS] HOWTO for installation on 7.1

[Derek Atkins]

Eduo <eduo@ciateq.mx> writes:

> 2.-Are the binary rpm files for OpenAFS usable? Or should i better get the
> sources and compile it myself?

Some people have had success with the binary RPMs, and some people
have not.  I have been unable to figure out why it works for some
and not for others.  My guess is that Red Hat ships something like
6 different kernels that use 5 different sets of symbols version,
all different.  This means that we would need 5 different kernel
modules for each red hat 'kernel'.

Unfortunately, due to naming, there is no way to figure out which one
to use given the current loading scheme.  I'm working on fixing that,
too.

However, since I do not have a RH 7.1 machine myself I don't have a
good way to test this.  I'm basically depending on Derrick to build
the 7.1 packages, and hopefully test them.

> 3.-Are the makefiles and sources really customized for RH 7.1? I see
> references there to Inetd whereas RH 7.1 uses xinetd, etc.

The makefiles are absolutely generic.  The RPMs do add some RH-specific
customizations, but not many.

-derek

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