Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, hawat.thufir@×××××.com wrote:

> From: hawat.thufir@×××××.com
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount,
>     submount... which is best for  Gentoo?
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote:
>
>>  From: Jochen Schalanda <Jochen@×××××××××.de>
>>  Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount,
>>      submount... which is best for  Gentoo?
>>  Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user
>>
>>  On 10/13/2004 11:10 PM, Felix Tiede wrote:
>>
>> >   submount is supposed to supersede supermount as supermount is running
>>  in
>> >   kernel-space, while submount is a user-space-tool.
>>
>>  I think that is not quite correct. submount is a kernel module, hence it
>>  runs in kernel space. A userspace solution for automounting would be
>>  dbus+hal+ivman or gnome-volume-manager.
>>
>>  I tried supermount, submount, and dbus+hal+ivman and at the moment I like
>>  submount best since it perfectly fits my needs. But as already said, all
>>  the programs (automount, supermount, submount, ivman) have a slightly
>>  different featureset, so one should really try them all and decide
>>  afterwards which one to choose.
>>
>>  Jochen
>
>
> Very informative, thanks.  I think I'll go with submount.
>
>
> -Thufir
>
>




localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # emerge -vp submount

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2  159 kB

Total size of downloads: 159 kB
localhost ~ # emerge  submount
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 to /
>>> Downloading
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz
--15:04:32-- 
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz
            => `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz'
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 
216.165.129.135, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 88,203 (86K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 88,203        26.49K/s    ETA 
00:00

15:04:36 (26.47 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz' 
saved [88203/88203]

>>> Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz
--15:04:36--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz
            => `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz'
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 
216.165.129.135, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 75,476 (74K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 75,476        64.24K/s

15:04:38 (64.11 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz' saved 
[75476/75476]

>>> md5 files   ;-) submount-0.9-r2.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-submount-0.9-r2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) submount-0.9.tar.gz
  * Determining the location of the kernel source code
  * Found kernel source directory:
  *     /usr/src/linux
  * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
  * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux 
sources.
  * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that
  * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find 
.config.

!!! ERROR: sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 failed.
!!! Function linux-info_pkg_setup, Line 537, Exitcode 1
!!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status 
message.

localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # date
Thu Mar 23 15:05:01 GMT 2006
localhost ~ #




I'm not sure what's meant by the topmost build error, but as it's not too 
large, I included everything.


-Thufir
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