[OpenAFS] Production ready?

Lundgren, Andrew Andrew.Lundgren@Level3.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:26:13 -0600


It had been a long time since I have rebuilt packages from source and I
was struggling with that a bit.  I had it all but the define.  That made
a world of difference!

I've got it installed; now I will figure out how to use it!

Thank you!

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Andrew

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moritz Bunse [mailto:bunse@physik.uni-dortmund.de]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:09 AM
> To: Lundgren, Andrew
> Cc: jaltman@secure-endpoints.com; openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Production ready?
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> Hi
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> I'm using CentOS 5, a RHEL 5 rebuild. I just dowdnloaded the=20
> source rpm and did
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> # rpmbuild --rebuild openafs-1.4.4-rhel4.2.src.rpm --define=20
> 'osvers rhel5'
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> Then the rpms can be found in e.g.=20
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/. Works fine for me. There are=20
> also prebuild rpms available in the internet, e.g.:=20
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/openafs/
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> Hope that helps,
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> 	Moritz
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> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
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> > > I suggest using a version of Linux that has pre-built binaries=20
> > > available for it unless you have some special requirements.
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> > Looking at the Redhat distros that are supported, the newer=20
> builds are=20
> > not present.  (RH5 is out was well as newer RH4, the=20
> current kernel is=20
> > several version newer than what has packages available.) =20
> 4.2 seems to=20
> > be the newest RH out there.  As I want the newest security=20
> builds, am=20
> > I best off just downloading the 1.4.4 source and compiling them or=20
> > trying to use the older binary packages on the current distro?
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