For what its worth I always compile my own SuSE's.. Tedc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Aaker Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and OpenSUSE build service.
> > Ken Aaker wrote: > >> I was looking around OpenSUSE.org and looked at some of their Build >> Service information. > Me too, last week in fact. >> >> They have a couple of versions of OpenAFS modules available, 1.4..2 and >> 1.4.4, as well as libpag-openafs-session. I didn't see any familiar >> names on the packages. I'm going to give their modules a try when I get >> the 10.3 version shortly. >> > I asked Matthias Eckermann (who has the 1.4.2 packages in his > home-project home:mge1512) about the openafs-packages. > He agreed that I could copy it and update it to openafs-1.4.4, since > he wouldn't have the time for it. > Thus, under my home-project home:rzg0hank you can find the 1.4.4 > packages. > >> Has anybody tried these modules yet? They also make some claims about >> providing build services for several other distributions, like Fedora, >> Debian, Mandriva, and Ubuntu. >> > Well, since they're pretty new, I guess noone tested them yet. > At least they install (and the client works) on OpenSUSE10.2 i586, but > I haven't had time to try out more. > I guess there's a lot to fix, esp. there's no binary kernel-module yet. > Anyway, everyone should feel free to try them: > If you want to try them out, you can use following repository-information > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rzg0hank/<DIST>/home:rzg0han k.repo > > where <DIST> is one of openSUSE_10.2, SLES_9 or SLE_10 (sic!). > Since I have never used the suse-rpm before I'd appreciate any > comment's what's desired. > About the other Linux-Distros: It seems you can build rpm for them as > well, but I haven't actually seen doing it. >> >> (Just curious) >> > > I just didn't tell it here yet, because of the drawbacks mentioned above. > > Christof Thanks Christof, I've been building my own rpms for i586 and x86_64, using a spec file that I cobbled together from a couple of older spec files. It builds kmp kernel modules, but it gets a bit confused and tries to build kernel modules for non-existent kernels, if the kernel sources aren't set up properly. Ken Aaker _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
