Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

Ben Kaduk minimarmot at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 06:52:42 CEST 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Alec Kloss
<alec-keyword-arla.4d43de at setfilepointer.com> wrote:
> On 2008-02-25 22:23, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>> At 9:38 PM -0400 2/25/08, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> >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


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