On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 03:55 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Also, I'd be happy to include the Debian packaging into the Lustre > CVS repository so that e.g. "make debs" can be run to build the .deb > packages, like "make rpms". Unfortunately, my Debian-fu is low > these days, so it would need to be in the form of a patch against > Lustre, preferrably put in a bug.
My dpkg-fu is pretty low too, but I have put together a /debian dir that builds the patchless client (and the userspace tools of course). The problem I always seem to run into is that at some point between sitting down at a fresh debian (ubuntu in my case) system and getting all packages produced, including both modules and userspace tools, one has to be root for at least some of the time. IIRC, it's usually the module-assistant part that needs you to be (real, not fakeroot) root. I think there is some way to use m-a with "-u" to get around this but even then IIRC, m-a was pretty unhappy until I put lustre into /usr/share/modass/compliant.list which again, required root. Andreas, I'm not sure how you feel about it, but IMHO, its very important that one can produce the full array of packages from a (say) "make debs" in a lustre source pool without having to be(come) root at any point in the process. Would any of current debian package maintainers on this list like to help us get to that point? b.
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