openafs-modules-source builts when kernel API++

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest stable release of Ubuntu ?

[Expired for openafs (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Problem is still there in Gusty. Implementing the wish would still make much life easier.

Agreed and it would also be nice to have a meta package that depends on latest available openafs module package.

Holeheartly agreed Björn.

FWIW: I use equivs for it until openafs kernel modules are better integrated into the kernel upgrade
procedure:

$ cat gutsy/openafs-module-generic
### Commented entries have reasonable defaults.
### Uncomment to edit them.
Section: net
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.7.2

Package: openafs-module-generic
Version: 2.6.22.10
Depends: openafs-modules-2.6.22-10-generic
Maintainer: Achim Bohnet <email address hidden>
# Pre-Depends: <comma-separated list of packages>
# Recommends: <comma-separated list of packages>
# Suggests: <comma-separated list of packages>
# Provides: <comma-separated list of packages>
# Replaces: <comma-separated list of packages>
Architecture: i386
# Copyright: <copyright file; defaults to GPL2>
# Changelog: <changelog file; defaults to a generic changelog>
# Readme: <README.Debian file; defaults to a generic one>
# Extra-Files: <comma-separated list of additional files for the doc directory>
Description: AFS kernel driver for -generic kernel
 This package will always depend on the AFS kernel module for the latest
 generic kernel image available.

Heh, need to be updated for recent -12 API change. Sigh.

We have been using the attached meta package for some time on Dapper.

This bug was fixed in the package openafs - 1.4.10+dfsg1-2

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openafs (1.4.10+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream CVS deltas:
    - STABLE14-dprintf-rename-20090427: rename AFS's dprintf to avoid
      conflicts with one in the kernel.
    - STABLE14-linux26-defer-cred-changing-20090511: defer changing groups
      when the real and effective credentials of a process differ to avoid
      running afoul of checks in newer Linux kernels that cause oops.
      (Closes: #528785)
    - STABLE14-linux-mmap-antirecursion-fix-20090512 and
      STABLE14-linux-mmap-antirecursion-avoid-spurious-eio-20090526:
      improvements in flag setting and locking around recursive mmap
      protection.
    - STABLE14-memcache-write-on-laststore-20090512: write back dirty
      pages on last store with memcache to avoid losing changes.
    - STABLE14-background-fsync-consistency-issues-20090522: file
      descriptor handling fixes for the file server.
    - STABLE14-man-page-vos-dump-flags-20090526: document the -clone and
      -omitdirs flags to vos dump. (Closes: #502571)
  * Provide an openafs-modules-dkms package that uses DKMS to dynamically
    build kernel modules for the local kernel and document this option in
    README.modules. This is an alternative to installing
    openafs-modules-source and building kernel modules for each new kernel
    with module-assistant or make-kpkg. (Closes: #168852, #525131)
    (LP: #52786, #368471, #369875)
  * Have openafs-client recommend at least the current source version of
    openafs-modules-source or openafs-modules-dkms instead of any old
    version. While the API probably hasn't changed, it's best practice to
    keep a relatively close match between the userspace andn the kernel
    module version. (LP: #369875)
  * Dynamically determine the Debian and upstream versions for dkms.conf
    and get-orig-source from debian/changelog. Thanks, Anders Kaseorg.
    (LP: #364426)
  * Build-depend on cpio (used for generating openafs-modules-source).

 -- Anders Kaseorg <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:45:57 +0100