On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:38, matt massie wrote: > all the different linux distributions are a little frustrating. i wish > there was at least a standard way of making a LINUX distribution instead > of one for RedHat, SuSE, Debian, et al. we've ported ganglia to run > nicely on every flavor of linux (and every hardware platform) but > packaging it up is a whole different beast all together.
You could look into the Linux Standard Base stuff: http://www.linuxbase.org/ Both RedHat-7.3 & SuSE-8.0, along with Mandrake-8.2 are LSB certified now. It may still be a little premature to use this since it will be a while before it starts to become a real standard, but it should greatly simplify software installation on all the different distributions in the future. For example, it will require each distribution to include these scripts which would make what you are trying to do easier: /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /lib/lsb/init-functions This should greatly simplify the writing of all the init scripts for daemons. RedHat recently released a redhat-lsb package to try and start supporting these capabilities. It contains some of the standard init-functions scripts. Just something to consider for the future.... ~Jason -- /------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jason A. Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Atlas Computing Facility Phone: (631)344-4226 | | Brookhaven National Lab, Bldg. 510M Fax: (631)344-7616 | | Upton, NY 11973-5000 | \------------------------------------------------------------------/
