Transarc compatible openafs SRPM

Gerte Hoogewerf <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:42:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there,

I have been working to get Openafs working on Mandrakelinux 10.1 and 
10.2, both client and server.
I've created a SRPM to share my work. Main problem at the moment is, 
that the Openafs kernel module is a little shaky. When I install a 
vanilla 2.6.11.2 kernel and build the SRPM everything runs well. On the 
default Mandrakelinux kernel, things crash. This will get better once 
Openafs stabilized a little more on kernel 2.6, wich I expect, wil 
happen soon.

I hope this contribution can help to have Openafs to be included into 
one the next Mandrakelinux versions. I've seen some other SRPMS  by 
Guillaume Rousse which also work, but don't enable some server features. 
My specfile has a different approach than his, so I couldn't 
update/improve his work and restarted from scratch. With the 
installpaths I use in my SRPM, people should be able to use openafs docs 
and get a fully working Mandrakelinux openafs server/client within a 
couple of minutes.

I also use the rc-script in the openafs tarball to launch openafs and 
found it a bad idea to Mandrake-ize it. I would like to discourage 
people to re-write this script. The packaged script works wel, and maybe 
we should just write a wrapper that calls this script instead of writing 
our own Openafs init script.

This is the link to the SRPM:
http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/openafs/