Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Installation of LinuxCOE

[Lee M. <lee...@hp...>]

Hi Bruno,

  My comments in-line:

Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that the systemdesigner part of LinuxCOE will be difficult to
> package.
>
> 1/ it seems that the planed directory organisation is under a single
> main dir (I choose /usr/local/systemdesigner) where the LSB/FHS
> integration would rather imply using /usr, /var/log, /etc, ...
> We will have to pass a lot of parameters to configure in order to achieve
> that, I guess.
>   
When we originally decide on filesystem locations, we went with:

/opt/package - Static package objects
/etc/opt/package - Host specific configuration (optional)
/var/opt/package - Volatile data - namely profiles and logs

Bryan and I (mostly Bryan :) parameterized all pathnames with @prefix@ 
in the code, so it's relatively easy to relocate the package and all its 
components to a different path.  The /etc tree is completely optional, 
but useful as it allows you to protect any changes between updates (it's 
a mirror of what's in /opt/package and takes precedence for config/data 
directives).   I'm happy changing this if it makes sense.

> 2/ The Apache conf file is not installed by the make install proceudre
> (under the service dir) and I think it's a bug.
>
>   
This is a function of 'make integrate', which will also update sudoers 
if you require that functionality, which is mostly for older distros 
where I need to loopmount initrd to make changes.  It's separate from 
'make install' as it's something you only do once.

> 3/ Is there a bugzilla somewhere we could use ?
>   
There's the standard bug-tracker provided by sf.net:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144250&atid=758199

We should all start using it.
> 4/ There should also be an easy way to download files compared to CVS
> (again for some tools helping to build packages it's easier). 
>   
In the past we've included 'virgin' boot images for the majority of the 
distributions we support.  While this was convenient for users, it put 
us at odds with sourceforge's disk quotes.   Chris Slater kindly  hosts 
'tarball' snapshots of System Designer at installinux:

http://www.instalinux.com/LinuxCOE/snapshot/

We'll be removing these images and including instructions on how to 
create your own (and perhaps hosting tarballs of just the images 
remotely) to decrease our disk space usage on sf.net and allow true 
build releases on sf.net soon.
> That's all for now, but I may come back with further questions :-)
> Bruno.
>   
Hope that helps, Bryan will elaborate further I'm sure!

Best Regards,

Lee