[OpenAFS] debian packages & backports

[Andreas Hirczy]

Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer@cgv.tugraz.at> writes:

> Dan Pritts wrote:
>> hi all -
>> 
>> I suppose this really is a generic debian question, not an openafs
>> question, but here goes.
>> 
>> Is there some reasonable way to run debian stable (sarge) but get a
>> recent and working openafs?
>> 
>> It looks like backports.org has a 1.4.0-3 release, is this something that
>> the official debian openafs packagers periodically put together?  If so,
>> is there any commitment to what level of package support there will be?
>> 
>> (he says, wishing there were a linux distro that did what he wanted)
>
> At the rep. of the itp.tugraz.at there are actual 1.4.1 debian packages
> of OpenAFS for sarge.

<http://itp.tugraz.at/Comp/debian/>  --> system

And those packages even work :)

But you'd have to install my custom kernel also, which I wouldn't
recommend. At least you should build your own kernel package  from
<http://itp.tugraz.at/Comp/debian/dists/sarge/system/binary-i386/openafs-modules-source_1.4.1-2_all.deb>


Andreas

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