[Fwd: Re: Arla-0.42 on OpenBSD-3.9]

[Hugo Meiland]

forwarding to list....

> 
> I'm on the other side of the fence.  I'm an OpenBSD developer and I've never
> setup arla outside of what is included in the OpenBSD /usr/src tree.  Could
> you offer me a cluebit on how I might go about doing this?
> 
> I'd like to do it so that I can test the latest arla release and hopefully
> integrate it into OpenBSD in time for the upcoming 4.0 release.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 

Hi Todd,

Great hearing from you!! Upgrading the OpenBSD version is on my hotlist
as well, I've been in contact with Bob Beck on this and hopefully meet
him and some others next week on BSDCan to discuss it a bit...

 From what I see, the difference between the OpenBSD version of Arla and
the latest release is not huge, apart from the weird /nnpfs/xfs/ and
/arlad/afsd/ name mangling (I haven't found any records of this
discussion with Theo, do you know if/where i can find that??)

the following snippet is from my paper which I present at BSDCan next
week (and tested today on 3.9):

The 0.42 release from Arla has been tested on OpenBSD 3.8, to run
correctly in 3.9 you will have to check out -current form cvs:
installing arla-current from cvs:\\
\begin{verbatim}
> cp src.tar.gz sys.tzr.gz /usr/src
# cd /usr/src; tar zxvf src.tar.gz; tar zxvf sys.tar.gz
perform some kernel build magic up to make depend
> env CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs.stacken.kth.se:/stacken-cvs \
   checkout arla
# pkg_add autoconf-2.59.tgz ; pkg_add automake-1.9.6p0.tgz
# pkg_add libtool-1.5.22.tgz
> AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.59 AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9 autoreconf -f -i
> ./configure && make
# make install && mkdir /afs
# echo "/usr/arla/sbin/startarla" >> /etc/rc.securelevel
# reboot
\end{verbatim}

Being an afs server is a whole different ball-game, and looks not really
feasable in OpenBSD due to licensing issues with OpenAFS...

Let me know whether this helpes...

Hugo