Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

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

Bryan Gartner said on Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:17:58AM -0700:

> Okay I have now setup:
> 
>       --without-APACHE	      skip auto-integration with Apache webserver
>       --without-APACHECTL     skip check for apache*ctl
>       --without-SUDOERS	      skip auto-integration with sudo
>       --without-SUDO          skip checks for apache*ctl
> 
> I believe that the --without-APACHECTL and --without-SUDO will
> do what you requested.

Great ! Thanks a lot ! Just trying now to see how it behaves in my VMs.

> Actually there are a whole set of commands that are beyond mandatory
> in a base installation that SystemDesigner relies upon.  You just
> happen to have most of these in your qemu packaging building instances ;)

Well yes I do not count what nearly every distro has in its base (perl
e.g. )

> In reality, I should do similar checks for all those not required by
> FHS, however I drew the line at Apache/Sudo since those two I have to
> directly integrate with for a functioning SystemDesigner.  The other
> checks were left as a failure if not found.

Fine. I don't think it will cause a pb.

> For the debian crowd, this seems to be handling quite gracefully, as
> any package build environment starts at the same base level, and uses
> the package description to fill in build dependencies, before trying
> to create a given package.  I am less familiar on how the rpm-based
> distributions handle their package builds.

Do you mean that Debian automatically install missing packages required
for the build ? I would find that too excessive for my side.

If everything goes well, monday you'll have a full set of packages ready
to use for all RPMs based distro I support. debs are of course the next
to be done just after.

FYI, installing a LinuxCOE server with those is just:

rpm -Uvh linuxcoe*rpm
more /var/www/linuxcoe-sd/images/README
cd /tmp
wget -m http://www.instalinux.com/snapshots/images/
cp -a www.instalinux.com/snapshots/images/*.tar /etc/linuxcoe-sd/images/

Enjoy !!

Now I'll also work on the dploy.org added value consisting in linking
that with the mirror processes to have more automatic links with the
waystation part. (+PXE stuff) Again more on that later.

Bruno.
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