[OpenAFS] SuSe-RPMs

Jason Edgecombe jedgecombe@carolina.rr.com
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:06:36 -0400


hi,

   I'm running Redhat 7.1 and It has a symlink from /etc/init.d to 
/etc/rc.d/init.d  I think that it has been this way since 7.0.. Does 
this help any?

Sincerely,
Jason Edgecombe

Tino Schwarze wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:11:43PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>>You can also try downloading the Red Hat SRPM and rebuilding it on
>>SuSE.  I don't know what problems Tino has been seeing, but if there
>>are SuSE-specific problems we should get them corrected in the
>>upstream.  
>>
> This is unfortunately not possible in a straight-forward manner. SuSE
> (at least version 7.2+) has it't init scripts in /etc/init.d, it does
> not use chkconfig but insserv.
> 
> I attached a patch for the init script (which should also work on
> RedHat). It is also available as
> /afs/tu-chemnitz.de/openafs/suse-7.2/SOURCES/openafs-1.2.0-tucz_suse.patch
> I also made some modifications to Thomas' spec file which will not work
> on RedHat (like moving init scripts to /etc/init.d and other minor
> changes).
> 
> 
>>I also don't know how Thomas Mueller's RPMs differ from
>>mine.
>>
> Apart from some CUT specific changes, they do not differ much - Thomas
> has not yet made 1.2.[01] RPMs. I'll take a look at 1.2.1...
> 
> Bye, Tino.
> 
>