[SSI-devel] recent changes to debian repository.

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@hp...>]

Hi All,

I made lot of changes to Debian code base and also some changes to 
generic code in order to get a fully automated install of Debian. I am 
right now rebuilding everything from scratch and will do a fresh 
installation of the cluster. I am listing below what are the changes.

1) The meta package kernel-image-2.4-686-smp will call
	a) during pre install phase ssi-create.
	b) during post install phase we will write the kernel version to 
/cluster/kernel_version file. This file only contain the version number 
and the initrd and kernel image are built as
		
kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-"$VERSION
initrd="/boot/initrd.img-"$VERSION

The old method still works. All these changes will come into picture 
only when the file /cluster/kernel_version is present.


The only confusion that i have now is ( I can validate this only by a 
fresh install which i am doing now )

kernel meta package kernel-image-2.4.686-smp depends on 
kernel-image-2.4.22-ac1-ssi-686-smp

Now the ram disk is built during the installation of 
kernel-image-2.4.22-ac1-ssi-686-smp

That means when installing kernel-image-2.4.22-ac1-ssi-686-smp i will 
not have meta package installed. For us right now the ssi-create happens 
in the preinst of the meta pacakge.

Now when i am installing the cluster from zero the ramdisk creation will 
fail as there is no /etc/clustertab present. I guess dpkg-deb runs all 
the specified package preinst before those package post inst is run. If 
the above assumption is not correct i will have to see when we can 
create the cluster so that the mkinitrd stage goes fine when we are 
installing the cluster from zero. For upgrade everything should work fine.

Another option i have is put ssi-create in the preinst of 
kernel-image-2.4.22-ac1-ssi-686-smp. I am not doing it right now 
because for Debian kernel package is built using make-kpkg. and i don't 
have any of the related package source in the CVS. May be finally i may 
end up moving the ssi-create to post inst of 
kernel-image-2.4.22-ac1-ssi-686-smp.

-aneesh