hi Luc,
On Dec 4, 11:58pm, Luc Stepniewski wrote:
> Subject: Re: Debian patch for latest version of PCP
> ...
> Yes, you're right. I haven't yet proposed my package for
> official inclusion for two reasons:
> 1) I haven't asked your permission yet :-)
I don't think thats going to be a problem. ;-)
> 2) I'm at 50% sure, that it will be rejected because PCP
> in its actual form doesn't respect some of the FHS.
>
> To be accepted, a package has to follow some very
> strict rules. One of them is to respect the Linux
> Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/),
> and the Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/).
> I see that SGI is a member of LSB :-)
>
> Some files are misplaced (from my interpretation of the
> FHS)...
a number of these issues I addressed in the XFS tool
build using an FHS_COMPLIANT env var - which is
unconditionally set in a Debian build and which can
force configure.in settings to come out a certain way
(current configure script guesses at file locations &
gets it wrong on Debian).
a similar thing could be done for pcp.
also, some of the dpkg references in the pcp configure
script are busted - I never got round to fixing these
(eg. dpkg=$DKPG). for XFS, this stuff all got removed
anyway - different build model for Debian.
again, a similar thing could be done for pcp.
>
> > Luc, do you intend to put your (very cool, thank you so
> > much!) pcp & pcpmon packages into unstable?
>
> I will propose the pcp & pcpmon packages as soon as I
> have your authorization (SGI's & Michal's) to do so.
> I wanted to wait for the version Mark talked about releasing
> this week, and I wanted to test the package a little more
> before proposing it. It has to be perfect !
>
fair enough.
> > in your thoughts on that too - see the xfs homepage on oss
> > and cmd/xfs/tools/debian + cmd/xfs/build/deb.
>
> Ok, I'll look at it.
>
and I'll try out your .deb's soon as I get a chance.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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