Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

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

Bruno,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:49:05PM +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Bruno Cornec said on Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:59:14PM +0100:
> 
> > > > Or if you don't mind, I can try to derive what you've done for
> > > > sudo/apachectl and do it for the perl modules.
> > >
> > > Either option is fine by me, go for it !
> >
> > Will do that ... but this week-end as it's a bit late now. Hope I'll
> > have enough time as I have a concert also to prepare (Cf:
> > http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ens.voc.variations/ french only sorry !)
> 
> 
> Ok, I did the perl modules, and also mkisofs and sendmail which may not
> be in a VM either. (The rest is really part of core distros).

Excellent, thanks!  And I am hoping you have added all of these
as RPM dependencies, since you have now effectively disabled the
checks.  We may also need to revisit this issue with the post-install
script, to repopulate some values on the target install system.

> I've now been able to generate RPMs for quite a lot of distro. The only
> one for which I have a pb I need to see is fedora 7 (my VM may have
> something wrong BTW, need to check).
> 
> Could some of you please check whether it works also for them ? (I know
> that the removal of packages needs more work, again more on that later
> on).
> 
> Short instructions:
> 1/ Download packages from ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/ under which
> you'll find one directory per distro (fedora mandrake mandriva redhat rhel
> sles suse) and below one directory per version (e.g. under mandriva 2005
> 2006.0 2007.0 2007.1 2008.0). You have normaly 1 main package to
> download (linuxcoe-sd-base-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm) and 11 other
> optional packages depending on what delivery you want to setup:
> linuxcoe-sd-data-centos-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-debian-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-fedora-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-nld-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-opensuse-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-rhel-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-scientific-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-sles-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-suse-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-data-ubuntu-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
> linuxcoe-sd-docs-4.1-1.mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm

If I install, say linuxcoe-sd-data-opensuse*, I should get
linuxcoe-sd-base due to a dependency, correct?

> 2/ After having done your rpm -ivh, you have to install the boot images
> content in addition under /etc/linuxcoe-sd/images. Get them from
> http://www.instalinux.com/snapshots/images/ More details in
> /var/www/linuxcoe-sd/images/README
> 
> 3/ Celebrate ;-)
> 
> At least, for me it is now as simple as that.
> 
> Next step is to produce .deb packages, but may be later in December, as
> I need now to work on a LinuxCOE training with my packages ;-)

I will be doing a couple of tweaks to the debian packaging (and will
do my best to migrate those updates to the pbuilder equivalents).
And I will be starting on my prep to deliver MondoRescue training
in early December.

BTW, I have gotten OCSinventory/OpenVAS/OpenNMS up and running
as well.  Since the first two (at least) are likely candidates
for dploy.org, we may want to help them out with some packaging
as well.

> Happy Thanksgiving for those of you in the US.

Thank you, do your best to miss us while we rest,

bryang