[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on mandriva linux 2006

[Paul Johnson]

Forgot to mention one thing.  After you install the RPM file, it is
necessary (as root) to do

/sbin/depmod -a

This should be in the SPEC file, but it is not.

pj

On 3/27/06, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Fedora Core 4 and have also installed openAFS on Redhat EL.  I
> believe Mandriva is an RPM based distribution and so you should stick
> with the rpm approach.
>
> Note you need 2 packages to make openAFS work. THere is the
> openafs-client rpm, and there is another RPM that matched EXACTLY with
> your current kernel version.  If you don't have the matching module,
> nothing happens, as you noticed.
>
> So, build your own module.  Get the openafs src.rpm file from their
> web site. If you install that, it drops source code somewhere in your
> rpm build location.  I don't know where that is in your system.  In
> mine, it is customized by a file in m y home called ~/.rpmmacros.
> Anyway, in that special place, there will be a directories RPMS,
> SPECS, BUILD, SOURCE, SRPMS.  If you do
>
> rpm -ivh openafs-xxx.src.rpm
>
> you can look that over.
>
> In theory, the SPEC file says you should not need to install the
> src.rpm file, but rather you can simply build it.  It says:
>
> To a kernel module for your running kernel, just run:
>   rpmbuild --rebuild --target=3D`uname -m`
> openafs-%{pkgvers}-%{osvers}.%{pkgrel}.src.rpm
>
> (all one line)
>
> That builds the module, you still have to run
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild openafs-%{pkgvers}-%{osvers}.%{pkgrel}.src.rpm
>
> to build the client.
>
> I did not have good luck with the --rebuild approach, so I did the
> install of the src.rpm so I could study their source code.  One
> advantage of this approach is that they include configuration files in
> the SOURCES directory, and you can edit those configs to match your
> site.  Then, after you build your RPM, then your openafs client will
> not need configuration.  This has been great for me running a small
> computer lab.
>
> In the SPEC directory, you do this
>
> rpmbuild -ba openafs.spec
>
> and that will build the main openafs client.
>
> Then you run rpmbuild again with an option to tell it your kernel.
> Read inside the spec file and it claims that you can rebuild with
> this:
>
>  rpmbuild --ba --target=3D`uname -m` openafs.spec
>
> Good luck. Write back to the list with questions.
>
> You may need to install other RPMS from Mandriva for this to work. You
> probably need whatever kernel packages they have for development. In
> Fedora, it is called kernel-devel now, but before it was kernel-source
> or kernel-header.  So stay on your toes.
>
> I'd advise you to avoid doing "make; make install" type builds until
> you know more about linux because you can create problems from which
> the rpm system cannot recover.
>
>
> On 3/27/06, Matteo Alfonsi <matteo.alfonsi@lnf.infn.it> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm trying to install an afs client (I need only the client) on mandriv=
a
> > 2006 linux. In particular:
> >
> > # uname -a
> > Linux 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 Intel(R)
> > Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz unknown GNU/Linux
> >
> > In the release page there isn't a rpm for this distribution.
> >
> > My first attempt was to install the rpm I found on the contrib mirrors
> > on the Mandriva distribution, but I failed because, at the end of all
> > the other problems, i cannot find (or understand which is/how to) the
> > module to load into the kernel.
> >
> > So I tried to download the sources from www.openafs.org, and, following
> > "INSTALL" instruction, I did the usual configure+make+make install
> >
> > And now?
> > The documentation i downloaded in the same page seems completely
> > uncorrelated with the things i'm doing, because they speak about a
> > cd-rom, but I don't have it! I downloaded the sources!
> > Refering to this documentation, i'm at the step "Loading AFS into the
> > Linux Kernel", but where can i find the dir "modload" to copy in
> > /usr/vice/etc
> >
> > Moreover I'm a bit in trouble because all the attempt I made inserted a
> > lot of different "afs","afsd","libafs"..etc files in the whole
> > filesystem and all is confusing. Luckly, i made this last attempt in a
> > different day, so i can distinguish the newest files by date, but when =
i
> > launched the "make install", all the compiled material should be
> > transferred to their specific dirs. Which are these dirs? (I launched
> > configure without options)
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> >
> > Matteo Alfonsi
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>


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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas