Yeah, I think the solution 3 seems to be the right way to go so that the 
rpm-based system does not need to get interfered with the deb-based package in 
terms of ganglia.

> PS: as for oscar-packager: there was no bug. in fact, the debian entry was 
> only listing web-frontend, thus the other package were not built because we 
> disd not state in the build.cfg that they needed to be built. So no bug :-)
Sounds good to me.

BTW, why don't we move this conversation to the oscar-devel@ ?

Regards,

--
- DongInn

On May 23, 2013, at 8:30 AM, LAHAYE Olivier <olivier.lah...@cea.fr> wrote:

> I've given a look ,at the ganglia package on debian (in 
> OSCAR).........Wooooowwww it's oooooooollllld (3.0.6).
> 
> 3 solutions:
> 
> 1/ remove the debian directory from svn and replace it with current debian 
> source one. Then update it for latest ganglia. Problems:
>     - This would remove the gvallee release entry in debian/changelog 
> (though, I think (looking at other files that Geoffroy took most files from 
> original debian package (see README.debian for example)
>     - Since V3.5.0, the web-frontend has not the same version as de monitor 
> one => I don't know how to generate 2 different packages from 2 different 
> tarballs from a single debian/ directory => blocking issue.
> 
> 2/ revert everything to 3.8.8 (downgrade rpm side) and replace debian dir 
> with upstream one. => useless, we can directly use upstream version. This 
> makes on;ly sens if we want to build on debian 5 for example. unfortunately, 
> this may require more effort to backport as there are some requirements that 
> I'm pretty sure can't be met on older debians......
> 
> 3/ use distro packages (on debian) and disable build for debian. IMHO, this 
> is the way to go as debian distro packages are compatible with jobmonarch and 
> have been tested with that version....
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> PS: as for oscar-packager: there was no bug. in fact, the debian entry was 
> only listing web-frontend, thus the other package were not built because we 
> disd not state in the build.cfg that they needed to be built. So no bug :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Olivier.
> -- 
>    Olivier LAHAYE
>    CEA DRT/LIST/DCSI/DIR
> De : DongInn Kim [di...@cs.indiana.edu]
> Date d'envoi : jeudi 23 mai 2013 14:11
> À : LAHAYE Olivier
> Objet : Re: News from me :-)
> 
>> As for the ganglia question: I would say excellent question. I thought it 
>> was building on debian, but after giving a look at it, it turns out that 
>> only the webfrontend is built. So it needs investigation. More over, 
>> oscar-packager report the build as successful which is wrong. only the last 
>> pkg build is successful (webfrontend). I'll give a look at the error 
>> handling in the debian build. We need to keep track of the previous error.
> Great! Thanks.
> 
>> BTW, it seems that download is not synced any more. Could you give a look at 
>> it? ganglia_jobmonarch-1.1.tar.bz2 sould be available 
>> athttp://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/pkgs/downloads/ganglia_jobmonarch-1.1.tar.bz2
> 
> Yes, it broke because of the ssh key issue before. I just fixed it and it 
> seems to work again.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> - DongInn
> 

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