On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 04:15:31PM +0530, Satyarth Singh wrote: > Respected sir/madam, > I tried building the source code of openafs from the git repo and also > downloaded the latest stable release of openafs. I am using ubuntu 22.04 > and kernel version is 6.8.0-52-generic. > But I run into a number of errors everytime which I keep trying to > resolve.
Generally it's helpful to post the actual errors encountered (but see below for this particular case) > I want to ask a few doubts just so that I know I am not doing anything > wrong. > > 1) the release note for the latest stable release says that support has > been added for kernel 6.13. But does that mean it no longer supports older > kernels? Should I download an older stable release based on .my kernel > version? Adding support for kernel 6.13 does not remove support for older kernels. The latest OpenAFS should be able to work on all recent kernels. > 2) is it recommended that I downgrade my kernel and try an older kernel? Sometimes that is a useful interim measure when the packaged version of OpenAFS has not caught up to the latest packaged kernel, but it should not be a long-term solution. > 3) I first tried installing openafs via apt package manager But i found out > that it older openafs version which does not support latest kernel modules. The way that Ubuntu package management works in the Ubuntu base system is challenging for a kernel module like OpenAFS. However, the Ubuntu PPA mechanism does provide a convenient way to stay up to date; most sites running OpenAFS on Ubuntu use the "OpenAFS stable releases" PPA: https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable There are instructions on that page for "adding this PPA to your system" -Ben Kaduk _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
