Hi, I'm a developer on the Lustre project @ Sun. I have been maintaining a local patch to create a /debian subdir for our Lustre tree. Currently my /debian work is based on an implementation by Alastair McKinstry but has probably diverged from there a bit.
I want to get some form of .deb building committed into our tree and as such have bug 19721 open on our bugzilla with my patch and some discussion. Currently, my patch only builds a patchless client and is based on our 1.8.1 development release for Ubuntu's Intrepid 2.6.27-11 kernel. I am hoping for some review of my patch by people familiar with Debian packaging and thought you folks would be a great place to turn to. I have become aware of the pkg-lustre project through this effort but I have a feeling our goals, while generally the same, take different paths. In looking at your debian/rules, I see your and my origins are the same and I tried to remain on that path but I was not successful in meeting our goals with it. The biggest issue I had/have is the use of module-assistant to build the kernel modules. While I generally agree with that approach, I found it unworkable given that my desire is to run: $ dpkg-buildpackage (note the $ signifying an unprivileged account) in a lustre source tree and have all required packages produced, including the lustre[-client]-modules package. I could not find a way to do this with m-a that did not at some point require root privileges. Also note that this needs to be achievable in a manner that does not require one to have the machine that runs the dpkg-buildpackage be booted on the target kernel. i.e. the build needs to be optionally directable to the kernel-{source|headers} against which to build the targets. At this point, I'd be happy enough to just have patchless client packaging functioning. If we can get patched server builds integrated as well, well, that's welcome gravy. Thots? b.
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