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openafs package

  1. Bug #288743
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 288743

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Russ Allbery (rra-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 288743] Re: Use dkms for openafs-modules

Robert Gerlach <email address hidden> writes:

> Maybe some interest, I have well tested openafs packages (1.4.8 + dfsg)
> with dkms support in my ppa. Work fine, but the compilation (so an
> upgrade) needs some time. Maybe it's possible to build a static library
> of some kernel version independent code and only build the "glue-code"
> by dkms? Has someone already tried this?

I think you'll have a hard time finding enough truly version-independent
code in the OpenAFS kernel module to save a substantial amount of time,
although I could be wrong.

Much of the time in a build for me is taken by configure, and much of the
configure time is all the probes of the Linux kernel API.

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Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>