Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Installation of LinuxCOE

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Hi Lee,

Lee Mayes said on Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:41:40AM -0500:
>  My comments in-line:

As it has to be ;-)

> 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

Which is in fact nearer from a lsb type of packaging, rather than an
integrated distribution packaging (which uses rather directly /usr,
/var, ...)

No problem with it, just it makes the configure line of a package longer
;-)

> 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.

I think we will come back with Louis next week on that, after some
concrete tests. We will let you know.

> >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.

Grumph, missed that one on the output of the make command sorry.
BTW I do not have description of those steps in the Way Station HOWTO.
I've now found them (at least partly) in the Admin guide on SF.net.

Side question, do you have PDF versions of those 2 guides ?
Is the source in a XML|SGML format ?
If not do you want I make such a version ?

> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144250&atid=758199
> We should all start using it.

Ok. Will do as well.


> 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.

If you want a mirror site, I may also host LinuxCOE content at
mondorescue.org, or more precisely at dploy.org ;-)

> Hope that helps, Bryan will elaborate further I'm sure!

At last next week yes ;-)

Best regards,
Bruno.
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