perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Hi Guilherme

My directory tree of /home/perfsonar is:

                /home/perfsonar
                |
                |-- XML-LS
                    |-- ant
                    |-- build
                    |-- conf
                    |-- contrib
                    |-- doc
                    |-- lib
                    |-- release
                    |-- samples
                    |-- src
                    `-- webapps
                        `-- XML-LS-1.2
                            |-- WEB-INF
                            `-- wsdd


> > 1. What should I do before running rpm_maker.pl? Let's suppose I 
> > created /home/perfsonar and have got compiled and configured service 
> > (for instance: /home/mac/projects/perfsonar/trunk/geant2_java-xml-ls)
> Do you have the webapps directory with a XML-LS-1.2 directory inside 
> (containing a default installation of the service)?
> > 2. What else do I need? (sources? why the 
> > /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/XML-LS-1.2.tar.gz is missing?)
> The above directory should have been suficient. It's strange that it's 
> looking in /usr/src if you're running it from /home/perfsonar. The 
> scripts does a chdir("rpm") before proceeding to the next steps, maybe 
> this is changing to /usr/src/rpm somehow? Maybe you could give me 
> limited access to the machine you're trying to install so I can check it?

Yes, I'll do it tomorrow.

> > 3. Now, there is a requirement to have the /home/perfsonar directory 
> > in order to create RPM. What if I want to create RPM as non-root user 
> > using my own directory? Couldn't it be configurable?
> About the directory, it was decided that everything will be installed in 
> the /home/perfsonar directory so that we don't have ask the users 
> anything. The building process reflects basically the same things that 
> will be done in the installation process, that's why you need to create 
> the RPMs from that directory.

OK, it'd be more flexible to have the directory prefix in a variable or 
constant anyway.

> I don't think it's possible to build rpms using non-root users, but I'm 
> not sure. If it's possible, I don't see any problems with it.

I was wondering, because during the previous release it was very 
important for Release Team to use making release / configuration process 
as non-root user.

Best regards
Maciej

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