[OpenAFS] Building openafs 1.6.15 on old ("precise") kernels

[Sergio Gelato]

* John Tang Boyland [2015-11-05 20:57:10 -0600]:
>    We're trying to update our "precise" ubuntu systems with
> openafs-1.6.15. [...]
> 
>    I tried to build from source (./configure --with-linux-kernel-packaging)
> with simple "make; make install".  The new kernel module
> was placed in /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/extra/openafs/openafs.ko

2.6.32 was the kernel for Ubuntu lucid (10.04); precise (12.04) uses
kernel 3.2.0 (or newer, if you install one of the backported kernels from
later releases; 3.13.0 would be the obvious choice at the moment). 10.04
reached EOL (even for server installations) a few months ago, which means
that the package repository may soon disappear from ftp.ubuntu.com. (It
was still there a few minutes ago, though.) If you really need to continue
supporting 10.04, make sure you've got your own mirror.

If you've been running precise with a lucid kernel, you may want to try
upgrading the kernel.

> Are there some instructions I should be following rather than
> http://wiki.openafs.org/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource/ ?

I'll second Ben Kaduk's suggestion to build the Debian packages. I normally
use pbuilder so that there are no extraneous packages present during the
build that could affect the output of ./configure, but if you don't have
the time to set that up Ben's recipe will do. There may be issues with the
version of debhelper (openafs 1.6.15 requires debhelper >= 9, Ubuntu lucid
has version 7.4) but those can be solved. (I see I've got a lucid backport
of debhelper 9.20120115ubuntu3 in my private repo; probably a trivial one.)
Occasionally one may need to tweak a source package when backporting, but
for openafs there is rarely much to do. Version 1.6.15-1 will build as is
on Ubuntu trusty; I haven't had the need to try older releases.