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

[Gary Gatling]

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On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:22 AM, John Tang Boyland <boyland@pabst.cs.uwm.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks Sergio and others.
>
> My speaking of "precise" was wrong.  Sorry for wasting people's time
> with that.  Since I wrote the email, I've been informed that the machine
> is running Debian Squeeze.  That is not supposed to EOL until 2/2016
> (according to my limited understanding), but if I understand you
> correctly openafs-1.6.15 doesn't work on this old kernel.
>

I don't know about debian but I was able to build and upgrade openafs
1.6.15 for RHEL 5.11 which uses an ancient 2.6.18-406 kernel so I expect it
should work on old debian kernel also.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
te">On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:22 AM, John Tang Boyland <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt=
;<a href=3D"mailto:boyland@pabst.cs.uwm.edu" target=3D"_blank">boyland@pabs=
t.cs.uwm.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" sty=
le=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(=
204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Sergio and ot=
hers.<br>
<br>
My speaking of &quot;precise&quot; was wrong.=C2=A0 Sorry for wasting peopl=
e&#39;s time<br>
with that.=C2=A0 Since I wrote the email, I&#39;ve been informed that the m=
achine<br>
is running Debian Squeeze.=C2=A0 That is not supposed to EOL until 2/2016<b=
r>
(according to my limited understanding), but if I understand you<br>
correctly openafs-1.6.15 doesn&#39;t work on this old kernel. =C2=A0<br></b=
lockquote><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t know about debian but I was able =
to build and upgrade openafs 1.6.15 for RHEL 5.11 which uses an ancient=C2=
=A02.6.18-406 kernel so I expect it should work on old debian kernel also.<=
/div><div>=C2=A0</div></div></div></div>

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