Re: Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT
"Ben Kaduk" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.afs,gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Alec Kloss <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2008-02-25 22:23, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> At 9:38 PM -0400 2/25/08, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >Hash: SHA1 >> > >> >Can we commit these patches to ports itself, maybe with the make >> >file setup so 6.x is marked BROKEN while dealing with the problems >> >there? Might get more testers involved ... ? >> >> Or create a new port, "arla8", or "arla-dev". > > To the best of my knowledge, the port I made > (http;//setfilepointer.com/pub/afs/FreeBSD) works for 6.3, 7.0 and > -current, except maybe for changes in the last few days in -current > which may have broken the port. If there's sufficient interest, > I'll add 5.x support (via arla 0.43) to the port as well, but I was > hoping to avoid that, as it's a lot of overhead and arla's newish > block-by-block cache (thanks Thomas) which isn't available in arla > 0.43 makes arla highly competitive with the OpenAFS client > available elsewhere. > > As for getting the port into the ports tree, I think everyone's all > for it, but Thomas is volunteering to help merge our patch into the > arla sources which I'd prefer over maintaining a jumbo patch like > what we have now. I'm optimistic that we can probably have > everything ready by/after the weekend. > > So, please do test the port, and whine at me and/or Robert about > issues with it. I'm trying to shelter him from the details as long > as he shelters me from VFS. :) Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but I see that there have been recent contributions to the AFS page on the FreeBSD wiki (such as testing on 7.0-release), but the port still hasn't made it into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Is this in the works? Is it merely lacking for manpower? Thanks, Ben Kaduk _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-afs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"