Re: [SSI-devel] Debian packages for CI and openSSI

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have packaged CI and openSSI for debian . The source (tar.gz ) and
> binary packages for same can be downloaded from 
> 
> http://openssi.org/contrib/debian/

It might help if you organized these packages like so:

debian/
   +---src/
   |     +---ci/*.tar.gz
   |     +---openssi/*.tar.gz
   +---binary/
         +---ci/*.deb
         +---openssi/*.deb

Certain packages, such as cluster-tools, would appear in multiple 
directories (it could be hard linked).

You can also eliminate binary packages that we don't modify, such as 
util-linux*.deb (only mount*.deb from the util-linux source is modified).

Have you given any thought to packaging these .debs as a release? It 
seems like a good goal to make the Red Hat and Debian binary releases 
look as similar as possible (principle of least surprise for the user). 
For example, the Red Hat release has a ./install script for 
automatically installing and updating RPMs, as well as running 
openssi_configure_cluster to do the initial configuration. We could 
separate out the distro specific stuff and use it for both releases.

Brian