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

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:56 +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> Yes. there is no need to use m-a if you only want to provide already compiled 
> modules to exactly defined kernel version. 
> But if you want to build several packages each for another kernel version it 
> would make more sense to build a source package which is later build against 
> the kernelversion. 

Let me prefix all of this by saying, we are not proposing to officially
release and support debian packages.

But if we are going to add support into the source tree for
building .debs we might as well do it with all future possibilities in
mind.

That said, maybe for a releaseable set of packages, we would want to
build both a (lustre modules) source package for people to build against
whatever kernel they wish and a binary modules package built against
whatever kernel we'd propose to be supporting.

> Yes, but I would suggest to use the debian infrastructure for providing 
> packages for debian users. (As ubuntu is based on debian the goal to provide 
> lustre to ubuntu users is also fullfilled). 

That's fine, but what we need to tackle first is making it easy for
developers to (as Andreas put it) "make debs" and get all of the .debs
needed to install against the kernel that configure was pointed at.

b.

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