[OpenAFS] Is there any standardization on sysname for linux/glibc?

[Derek Atkins]

The sites that I know about personally have used things like
i386_rh60 or i386_rh90

-derek

"Thomas M. Payerle" <payerle@benfranklin.physics.umd.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> I am trying to bring some linux boxes into an AFS infrastructure and we will
> likely have several major versions of RedHat linux environments (and possibly
> even some non-redhat systems in the future) in the infrastructure at any
> given time.  (For now, all intel compatible cpus).
> 
> The default sysname when building openafs on linux follows the standard
> arch_os, e.g. i386_linux22 or i386_linux24.  I had been using the latter for
> some RedHat 7.x systems, but am about to put in some RedHat 8/9 systems, and
> while these are still using a 2.4.x kernel, there has been a major version
> change in glibc.  A search of web found an archival message acknowledging this
> issue 
> (https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2000-November/000060.html),
> but that was a while ago and did not actually resolve the issue.
> 
> I know I can change the sysname during compilation, and will probably just
> add a _rh8, etc. suffix, unless there seems to be a consensus on the "proper"
> naming for linux, as it depends on more than just the kernel version (at least
> glibc, and possibly some other libraries).  How are others dealing with this
> issue?
> 
> 
> Tom Payerle 	
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