On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Preston Smith wrote: > Debian packages are built.
Hi Preston, I'm currently using a home-grown debian package, so I'm looking forward to using your solution. I haven't found time to install it yet. I'm concerned about the file layout in the packages, and how they relate to Debian policy. 1) lots of documentation is in ganglia-monitor, even documentation that is just for libganglia development. (1176 out of 1724 blocks according to du). Such documentation is architecture independent, and should probably live in a -doc package. (policy 13.3) 2) lots of development code (what should be in a -dev package) is in libganglia (see debian policy 11.2) 3) man pages are in /usr/share/doc/ganglia-monitor/ docs/man/man3 instead of in /usr/share/man. this seems like an error, but these man pages should be in a -dev package anyway. 4) the shared library package has no number in it for concurrent installation of different versions at a time. (debian policy 11.3) 5) (trivial) ganglia-monitor has both /usr/lib and /usr/include, which are unnecessary. I think I would organize things as follows: ganglia-monitor contains gmond, gmetric, gstat, /etc/init.d stuff libganglia1 <- note the so version contains libganglia.so.1.1.0 libganglia-dev contains /usr/include/ganglia, libganglia.a, and the man3 pages ganglia-doc contains /usr/share/doc/ganglia-monitor/docs The list of files in a package can be listed using dpkg-deb -c blah.deb. I am not a debian developer; I just follow some lists. I hope these comments help. thanks, -neil
