[1343] in NetBSD-Development
AFS FOR NETBSD AND THE SRC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Buhrow)
Tue Jul 9 21:43:16 1996
Resent-From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
Resent-To: netbsd-afs@MIT.EDU
From: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:42:33 -0700
To: jtkohl@MIT.EDU
Cc: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu
Hi John. Perhaps you're not the right person to mail on this point, but I thought
I'd start with you on the ground that you did most of the work to make the
NetBSD AFS client come to be. We here at UCSC, the folks who run an almost
complete MIT Athena installation here on the left coast are moving deeper
into the realms of Athena by purchasing a site license (including src) for
AFS from Transarc. Actually, we've already purchased the site license, and
are waiting for our auth accounts to be created in the transarc.com domain.
My question for you is as follows:
We are going to be using NetBSD as a supported OS for the lab machines here
on campus. As an initial cut, we would like to use your AFS client from
AFS 3.3 as put in /afs/transarc.com/afs-contrib/bin/netbsd.client, or which
ever version of the driver you would recommend. In addition, would it be
possible to get access to the sources you used to build the NetBSD clients
with an eye toard updating the client to work with the 3.4A distribution?
Remember, we have access to the AFS sources per our license agreement with
Transarc, but are interested in the changes you made to make them run under
NetBSD. Also, we would be willing to put our changes and fixes back into
the contribution area of Transarc, and perhaps you have some pointers on
the best way to go about doing that. In particular, the README file down
in the afs-contrib area said something about only being able to look in the
src directory if we had signed some addendum to the src license. Do you
know anything about that?
Any thoughts you can shed on these matters would be greatly
appreciated.
-thanks
-Brian
