On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:27:11AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:38:54AM -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
NC State University. Duke. I believe Matt at Boston U. has used this approch in the past as well.
My current approach is to build a subpackage containing kernel modules for the latest three kernels all bundled together. This is horrible but works fine in our environment. (And, works perfectly fine with buildrequires and makes repeatable builds without passing in special parameters on the build command line.)
doesn't this imply that the kernels are also effectively bundled?
(If we wanted to have both i586 and i686 kernels, there would be a problem, but we simply don't support i586.)
:/
I was working on updating to the Fedora standard, but it's a lot of work and the incentive isn't high. :)
I am inclined to believe the only real solution here is to get the in-kernel AFS client up to snuff and abandon the OpenAFS kernel module. I don't know when this will happen, but I think it's easier than solving this problem. :)
It looks like everyone is only (really) interested in openafs kernel modules. How about
http://atrpms.net/name/openafs/
These are openafs kmdls for FC3-FC5 and RHEL4 (FC6 is being worked on). Less than RH9 was abandoned and RHEL3 could be resurrected (there were some issues with x86_64) if there were anyone interested (but I'm running out of licenses and need them for RHEL5).
If you have spare boxes and time and like to test you're very welcome!