Thanks a lot sir. On Sun, 30 Mar, 2025, 10:24 pm Benjamin Kaduk, <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 04:15:31PM +0530, Satyarth Singh wrote: > > Respected sir/madam, > > I tried building the source code of openafs from the git repo and also > > downloaded the latest stable release of openafs. I am using ubuntu 22.04 > > and kernel version is 6.8.0-52-generic. > > But I run into a number of errors everytime which I keep trying to > > resolve. > > Generally it's helpful to post the actual errors encountered (but see below > for this particular case) > > > I want to ask a few doubts just so that I know I am not doing anything > > wrong. > > > > 1) the release note for the latest stable release says that support has > > been added for kernel 6.13. But does that mean it no longer supports > older > > kernels? Should I download an older stable release based on .my kernel > > version? > > Adding support for kernel 6.13 does not remove support for older kernels. > The latest OpenAFS should be able to work on all recent kernels. > > > 2) is it recommended that I downgrade my kernel and try an older kernel? > > Sometimes that is a useful interim measure when the packaged version of > OpenAFS has not caught up to the latest packaged kernel, but it should not > be a long-term solution. > > > 3) I first tried installing openafs via apt package manager But i found > out > > that it older openafs version which does not support latest kernel > modules. > > The way that Ubuntu package management works in the Ubuntu base system is > challenging for a kernel module like OpenAFS. However, the Ubuntu PPA > mechanism does provide a convenient way to stay up to date; most sites > running OpenAFS on Ubuntu use the "OpenAFS stable releases" PPA: > https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable There are > instructions on that page for "adding this PPA to your system" > > -Ben Kaduk >
