[OpenAFS] RPM questions

[Ming Hou]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, ted creedon wrote:

> Recompile always works on SuSE.  10.0 ships with 1.3.87 which is obsolete.
>
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison@prodigy.net> writes:
>>
>> 
>>> I have installed OpenAFS on Linux using the following:
>>> 
>>> openafs-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm        I assume this is a 'base' rpm
>>> openafs-client-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm    I assume this is client 
>>> functionality
>>> openafs-docs-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm        Documentation, not sure I even 
>>> needed it
>>> openafs-kernel-1.4.0-2.6.9_1.667_1.i586.rpm        I assume its the kernel 
>>> "connectivity"
>>> 
>>> Am I correct in my assumptions?
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes.
>>
>> 
>>> Didn't use these, what are they for?
>>> 
>>> openafs-compat-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
>>> 
>> 
>> Compatibility symlinks with Transarc/IBM AFS paths (/usr/afsws)
>>
>> 
>>> openafs-kpasswd-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
>>> 
>> 
>> The KAserver kpasswd program
>>
>> 
>>> openafs-krb5-1.4.0-fc3.1.i386.rpm
>>> 
>> 
>> The Krb5 programs, aklog, asetkey, etc.
>>
>> 
>>> Is there a rationale for supplying only Fedora/Red Hat on Linux?
>>> 
>> 
>> Because that's all I have/care about, and nobody has asked me to
>> support anything else and provided me the resources to support
>> anything else.
>>
>> 
>>> If I want to run OpenAFS on SuSE do I have to compile from source or can I 
>>> use the Red Hat kernel version (assuming there is one) of OpenAFS 
>>> corresponding to the SuSE kernel?
>>> 
>> 
>> Unclear..  I've /tried/ to make the SPEC file general enough that
>> you could rebuild it on any RPM based system..  So you SHOULD be
>> able to rebuild the code on SuSE.  You DEFINITELY need to rebuild
>> the kernel module.  You MAY need to rebuild the user-space.
>>
>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>> 
>> -derek
>>
>> 
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