From owner-freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 21:03:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEAB1065673 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E4E8FC13 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:03:26 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b2bae000005b3f-46-4c991d84e6b0 Received: from mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.43]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id CF.7F.23359.48D199C4; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o8LL3Phh002823; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:26 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (MULTICS.MIT.EDU [18.187.1.73]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o8LL3OFn000111 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id o8LL3NO5026881; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:03:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Jan Henrik Sylvester In-Reply-To: <4C991CBA.9020809@janh.de> Message-ID: References: <4C990A1A.7040407@janh.de> <4C991CBA.9020809@janh.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: afs-list freebsd Subject: Re: 1.5.77 port of openafs X-BeenThere: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: The Andrew File System and FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:03:27 -0000 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