Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

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

Bryan Gartner said on Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:45:30AM -0700:

> > 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.  

yes, for the moment I have:

$ grep Requires pbconf/linuxcoe-sd-base/rpm/linuxcoe-sd-base.spec
Requires: php >= 4.0.4, perl, sudo, PBDEP
$ pbg PBDEP | grep =
[...]
./pbconf/linuxcoe-sd-base/pbfilter/rpm.pbf:filter PBDEP = httpd, mkisofs
./pbconf/linuxcoe-sd-base/pbfilter/md.pbf:filter PBDEP = apache, cdrkit-genisoimage

I need to re-intriduce a dependency on perl-CGI, when that package exist
separately and is needed. Later :-(

> 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).

Well I found an interesting issue on RHEL 4 for which I'm doing some
tests for my training. 

The tool in charge of computing dependencies for perl as a bug ;-)
When it encounter that pattern: '^[ \t]*use' it thinks this is a perl
require, even if it's in a printf :-(

So my last commit 'fixes' 2 messages which created false dependencies on
"it" and "the" !!

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

Yep:

$ grep Requires pbconf/linuxcoe-sd-data-opensuse/rpm/linuxcoe-sd-data-opensuse.spec
Requires: linuxcoe-sd-base, PBDEP


> > 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).

Ok, feel free to ask help for that. I've documented how to use pb at
http://trac.project-builder.org/wiki/NetPerfExample

I do not have pb packages for deb based distro yet :-(
Also for pb to work you need a patch to AppConfig.

> And I will be starting on my prep to deliver MondoRescue training
> in early December.

he he !!

> 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.

Good stuff. Packages exist for OCS for Mandriva, and from the person who
did it, it was a sort of nightmare :-( They do not seem to be good at
separating stuff, so packaging is much more complex. But at least I can
derive easily a .spec for it.

Greetings,
Bruno.
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