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

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

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:10, Watson, Brian J. (HP) wrote:
> 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.
> 

I will organize the packages as you suggested. My aim of putting those
.deb and tar.gz in the contrib section was to get the feedback from
other who are willing to give it a try. Once we fix any remaining issues
with packaging, we can put it in the same way redhat releases happens
now. 

-aneesh