Arla

[Damian Sobieralski]

 I hope this is the correct place to post this.  I'm a recent convert
to FreeBSD (about 2 years ago). I'll spare the details (potential flame
bait). I'll just say it is so nice to have ONE distribution of my O/S
and leave the inferences to what I was using before as an exercise to
the reader :)  Anyways, using the very well maintained ports I have
never had any troubles.  However, I am on a fact finding mission.  

  I have been digging around the 'Net looking for AFS client
information for FreeBSD.  It appears OpenAFS does not run on FreeBSD
and many point to Arla.  I visited the project's homepage and I noticed
that it stated that FreeBSD 5.2.1 is a specifically supported (my
version) system.  I tried to make the port and noticed it was listed as
"broken" (as well as several errors after I type "make" in
/usr/ports/net/arla).  So without wasting any more time on the mailing
list then need be- what is the status of Arla on FreeBSD?  Is there a
working port for 5.2.1? Or a more general question- if one has a 5.2.1
machine (i386) and wants AFS client connectivity- what options are
available to him (if any)?

 Thank you for any guidance that you can give.

- Damian