Re: [Moosefs-users] mfs & rpmforge

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

typo in ml address, forwarding.

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Subject: Re: mfs & rpmforge
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:49:38 +0200
From: Laurent Wandrebeck <lw...@hy...>
To: Steve Huff <sh...@ve...>, <moo...@li...>

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:55:39 -0400, Steve Huff <sh...@ve...> wrote:
> 
> hello Laurent!  thank you for reminding me; i had intended to drop you a
> line once the package was built and pushed to the repository.
No problem. I'm really glad you worked on it, as I'm a crap when it comes
to real .spec files :)
> 
> is it really necessary to have three separate mfs server packages?  i
had
> been thinking that it would be easier for users if there was one package
> that provided all the necessary server functionality (mfs) and one that
> provided all the client and admin functionality (mfs-client).  since
none
> of the services in the mfs package are chkconfig'ed on by default, i
> figured the deployment procedure would be to install the mfs package on
any
> system that had any mfs server functionality, then use chkconfig to
> determine which server components should run.
Oh well, I thought at first it was better to have a package per service,
but I like your approach.
A couple anyway:
Why use user/group daemon ? wouldn't a dedicated user be safer from a
security view point ?
Did you test the resulting RPMS ? I'm running (for now) -2, with a regular
mfs user, I don't know (yet) if the absence of a real shell could cause
problem.
Do you plan to maintain the rpm for a long time ? Do you need help for
version updates and such ?
Some actions are to be taken when you install, for example, master, you
need to change .cfg.dist into .cfg. I've found nothing about it in the
spec
file, can you enlighten me ?

Thanks,
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-- 
Laurent Wandrebeck
HYGEOS, Earth Observation Department / Observation de la Terre
Euratechnologies
165 Avenue de Bretagne
59000 Lille, France
tel: +33 3 20 08 24 98
http://www.hygeos.com
GPG fingerprint/Empreinte GPG: F5CA 37A4 6D03 A90C 7A1D  2A62 54E6 EF2C
D17C F64C