[OpenAFS] Openafs 1.4.0-rc7 Success on Redhat Enterprise 4 EM64T

Charles Duffy cduffy@spamcop.net
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:18:15 -0500


Karl E. Kelley wrote:
> There would also probably be some disruption due to having
> separate rpms for each kernel version as well, this doesn't cause a problem
> manually installing the rpms, but it is likely to cause at least many warnings
> from up2date, which will want to install the latest rpm, and if the system
> doesn't have the latest kernel installed, up2date will complain.

It almost sounds like it might be interesting to try to build a DKMS 
package for OpenAFS to automate this process [installing a precompiled 
binary for the active kernel if available, compiling one if not].