Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Installation of LinuxCOE

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Bruno,

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:20:37AM +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that the systemdesigner part of LinuxCOE will be difficult to
> package.

Actually not, we already have sample debian packaging tools in place
and Louis is walking the rpm set.

> 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.

Everything (sans my laziness in /etc@prefix) shorcuts should make it
relocatable.  Further all the Makefiles have $(DESTIR)@prefix variables
to make it even easier to package/relocate.

> 2/ The Apache conf file is not installed by the make install proceudre
> (under the service dir) and I think it's a bug.

make integrate (and done during post install actions for both .deb and
.rpm)

> 3/ Is there a bugzilla somewhere we could use ?

SF site has one.

> 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). 

I just recently updated the tarball snapshots, and the admin guide has
the instructions on how to go from CVS->tarball, and will soon have
the package make/install instructions as well.

bryang