Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: afs-list freebsd <freebsd-afs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 1.5.77 port of openafs Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1009211700120.9337@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <4C991CBA.9020809@janh.de> References: <4C990A1A.7040407@janh.de> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1009211559470.9337@multics.mit.edu> <4C991CBA.9020809@janh.de>
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 09/21/2010 22:23, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> Excellent. Have you also followed the steps here? >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-testing.html >> (The porter's handbook is a pretty nice resource for ports tips, though >> it sadly doesn't give much guidance for how to deal with kernel modules.) > > Since I was trying to keep the diff minimal, I did not attempt to make any > improvements besides the basic functionality of the package -- the option > WITH_FUSE was needed for that. (And I did not test in an optimal way lacking > a tinderbox and only using a chroot environment for "clean" builds.) > A chroot and manual inspection is frequently good enough. (And I wouldn't even have noticed the FUSE dependency, since I don't have it on my testing boxes.) > I have never used portlint so far, but I can try. In contrast to debugging > the deadlocks and crashes, improving the port should be doable for me. Portlint is largely for style checks that only become important right before submitting a port for inclusion in the repository. > Unfortunately, I will probably not have enough time in September, but I might > get to it in two weeks. I will check > http://web.mit.edu/freebsd/openafs/tmp/openafs.shar before I start with > anything. Well, the idea was that it would become freebsd/openafs/openafs.shar once I finished testing it, and the tmp/ directory would go away. I may not have time in September to do anything much, either, but will send mail if I do. -Ben
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