On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:06:32AM +0100, Jeremy Lainé wrote:
> > I already ha d deep look at the current packaging included in upstream git,
> > basically the initscripts need to be rewritten as they are full of
> > redhadisms, but thats'it basically.
>
> As far as I can tell, the packaging in upstream git (and upstream tarballs)
> is a
> not-quite-up-to-date copy of the Ubuntu packaging for ocfs2-tools 1.3.9. I
> disagree about
> rewriting the initscripts, until now the init scripts shipped with Debian
> have always been
> based on upstream with some minor Debian patches, and upstream has integrated
> all these
> patches. As time is short for lenny I'd rather stick to well-tested upstream
> init scripts.
Again, let me know if anything doesn't work.
> > To your question, Alioth seems fine to me, but why not use oracle git, and
> > make it a native package?
>
> I'd rather go the opposite way: ask upstream to drop the packaging in their
> git which is
> not quite up to date, and encourage them (and Ubuntu maintainers) to
> contribute to the
> packaging on alioth. Is there some cluster-related project on Alioth we can
> tack onto or
> should I ask for a new project?
Why can't we just make our packaging up to date? Regarding
Alioth, what do we gain? git is a distributed system, so it's plenty
collaborative.
Joel
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