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Re: New OpenAFS build script

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Wed Jun 25 21:35:53 2008

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From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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For the sake of the other Debathena developers (because I didn't notice 
the first 2 or 3 times I ran this), you want to set the DEBATHENA_APT 
environment variable before running the script. :)

- Evan

ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> I've committed debathenify-openafs.  I'm reasonably confident of its
> correctness at this time, and am using it to maintain the Athena 10
> apt repository.
>
> If SIPB Debathena maintainers would like to use it, instead of running
> the usual find-openafs-kernels/build-openafs/upload-openafs sequence,
> just run:
>
>   da ./debathenify-openafs binary upload
>
> or for a single dist:
>
>   ./debathenify-openafs hardy-amd64 binary upload
>   ./debathenify-openafs hardy-i386 binary upload
>
> It won't repeat unnecessary work, and it should coexist happily with
> the directories created by build-openafs.  In addition to modules
> packages, it will create and upload metapackages like
> "openafs-modules-generic" to keep linux-image metapackages in sync
> with OpenAFS modules.  I have one of these metapackages installed on
> my work machine and it appears to do the right thing.  I am currently
> puzzling out how the install script can decide which metapackage to
> install.
>   

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