Re: Arla on FreeBSD 5.5

"Gernot Hueber" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, 

Jerry McAllister writes: 

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:25:51AM +0200, Harald Barth wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> > > #  ===> arla-0.40 is marked as broken: "compiles but overwrites files
>> > > #  from a dependancy (security/heimdal)". 
>> > > 
>> > Recent arla-releases should work with FreeBSD 5.5, but 0.40 isn't exactly
>> > the latest. 
>> 
>> As the current arla release (0.43) works this is more of a question to
>> the packager than to the arla team. 
>> 
>> > I'm not very representative; I just grab the arla and heimdal sources and
>> > compile and install them. The default paths are different from the
>> > ports/packages and don't conflict at all :)
> 
> I finally did just that although I installed Heimdal from the ports
> and then grabbed the latest Arla (0.43) from the site and it built
> and installed with only a whine or two, but nothing that stopped it.
> It seems to be a working client now, on FreeBSD 5.5. 
> 
> I hope it gets fixed for FreeBSD 6.xx soon, though.
The 6.x issue is more tricky, due to that the vfs/vnode locking behaviour 
changed. I had a loadable nnpfs.ko, but access to the /afs/* ended in a 
kernel panic due to a locking issue... 

regards 

Gernot 


> 
> The maintainer is listed as:  [email protected]
> who is not someone I know. 
> 
> ////jerry 
> 
>> I don't know what the ports maintainers have done to neiher heimdal
>> nor arla or if it is just a question of "done nothing" for a long
>> time, but if you just take heimdal (currently 0.7.2) and arla
>> (currently 0.43) "as is" from the sources it compiles and works. I'd
>> suggest the ports maintainers should do the same, as all modifications
>> they add they will have to maintain. 
>> 
>> I guess the freebsd port maintainer for arla is on this list. Hi! We'd
>> like to hear more from you here. 
>> 
>> Harald.
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