[Lustre-discuss] Installation of Lustre on ubuntu /Debian

[Bernd Schubert]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 16:39:59 Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 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.

Why should you need to use module-assistent? All you need to do is to compile 
Lustre and put the .ko files into a debian package?

>
> 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.

I don't know if it is really important, since there is already a debian way to 
create packages. Actually in Lenny all packages are included and only the 
kernel modules have to be build, but even that can be easily done 
by "aptitude install lustre-source". And then building the modules with 
make-kpkg. Well o.k., I see your point when it comes to build a new lustre 
version, which is not in -stable yet. But for that there is always the 
possibility to backport the stuff from Debian Sid (unstable).
All of this applies to Ubuntu as well.

>
> Would any of current debian package maintainers on this list like to
> help us get to that point?

Patrick, Goswin and I certainly can help you (Patrick and Goswin have by far 
more experience to create clean packages than I have).


Cheers,
Bernd


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