[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS for RedHat Linux Enterprise

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:36:31 -0500


Yea, you probably need to provide '-S iget4_unlocked' to afsmodname

-derek

"Norman P. B. Joseph" <joseph@ctcgsc.org> writes:

> FWIW, on the hosts here running RHEL 3.0, I downloaded the 1.2.10 Fedora
> RPMs, including the openafs-kernel-source RPM, and built a kernel module
> against the stock RHEL kernel following the instructions in the README
> file.  The afsmodname script failed to create a useful SymTable.local
> file, but the startup script finds and loads the module anyway.  That's
> not recompiling everything from the SRPMs, but its been working here
> without any issues so far.
>
> -norm
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:03, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> David,
>> 
>> What problem(s) did you have compiling the fd1 SRPM on RHEL3?
>> It should mostly work.. You may need to limit the architectures
>> supported, but ISTR that I already did that for fc1.
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> "David Chait" <davidc@bonair.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> 
>> > Troy,
>> >     Could you possibly document the changes you make in the spec file for
>> > us? I have been having similar issues with RHEL 3.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > David
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Troy Dawson" <dawson@fnal.gov>
>> > To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:12 PM
>> > Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS for RedHat Linux Enterprise
>> >
>> >
>> >> > From: Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@rpi.edu>
>> >> >I build OpenAFS 1.2.10 for RHEL 2.1 using the release for RH 7.3 SRPMS.
>> > It is not difficult to do, but it needs to be done for almost every RH
>> > kernel release. Get the SRPMs, install them with rpm -i, and edit the spec
>> > file for your needs. Issue rpmbuild -ba specfile, and away it goes. On Thu,
>> > 2004-01-08 at 10:26, Roberto.Gomezel@ts.infn.it wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Hi all,
>> >> >>>        please someone could you tell me if there is a plan about the
>> > chance of
>> >> >>> having an openafs release for RedHat Linux Enterprise in the future?
>> >> >>> Thank you in advance
>> >> >>>  Bye
>> >> >>>    Roberto Gomezel
>> >> >>>     INFN - Italy
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >>
>> >> When rebuilding for RedHat Enterprise 3.0 you need to start with the
>> > Fedora
>> >> Core 1 SRPM's.  Starting with those it is quite straight forward.
>> >>
>> >> My rpm's are built for a RHEL 3.0 dirivitive (we recompiled our own
>> >> distribution from RH's SRPMS), but they should work on RHEL 3.0. These are
>> >> basically the openafs rpm's from fedora core 1, recompiled, with a few
>> > minor
>> >> modifications, such as binding to the fnal.gov domain.  But if you want to
>> > try
>> >> them you can.  They are at
>> > ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/contrib/openafs/RHEL30/
>> >>
>> >> Troy
>> >> -- 
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