Re: [itp] Coda filesystem

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Phil Nelson schrieb:
...
>          To support Coda as a standard part of Cygwin I would propose
> the following packages:
>
> 	lwp  (Libs)  -- A Coda specific light weight process library.
>         rvm (Libs)  -- A "recoverable virtual memory" library that allows
>                                persistant memory based data structures with a
>                                transaction system for consistency in the face of crashes.
>         rpc2 (Libs) -- A remote procedure call package used by Coda 
>                                (depends on lwp)
>         codafsd(net) --    The Coda "file system driver", the kernel module
>                                required to make Coda work.
>         coda (net) -- Coda binaries including venus, the client cache manager,
>                               and vice, the coda server.   This package would do a 
>                               standard setup for client.   Would require knowledge and
>                               work to finish building a Coda server.  (depends on lwp,
>                               rvm, rpc2, and coda-fsd.)
>
>
>        This would require the coda-fsd for a server.    Coda servers do not
> need the codafsd.   An alternate package list could be lwp, rvm, rpc2,
> codafsd and then split coda into:
>         coda-client (net) -- The client binaries.
>         coda-server (net) -- The server binaries.
>
>         The problem with this is that both server and client are compiled from
> the same source tree.  It would make the coda-client and coda-server 
> packages have the same source tar file and the source tar file
> would not be called either coda-client nor coda-server but just coda.

This is technically easy to solve.
coda-client, with external-source: coda-server in its hint.
The src tar would be coda-server.
This is what I would prefer.

Should I prepare some cygport and hint files for you?
Then you only need the postinstall.sh

> "The vote ..."  (not GTG votes, just concept votes ...)
>
>        I would like to have two questions answered:
>
>       1)   Is there support for adding Coda packages to Cygwin so any mirror
>             has Coda ready to install?
>
>        2)  If yes on 1,  which package set,  coda single package (client and
>             server)  or  coda-client and coda-server packages?
>
> Thanks for taking your time to look at this.
>
> --Phil
>
> p.s.   The private mirror is updated with the most current  cygwin and
> coda packages.   It is located at http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/mirrors/cygwin.
> The current install .exe is located at ftp://coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/winnt.
> (ntcoda-b4.exe)


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