perfsonar development work

[Frederic LOUI <>]

Hi Maciej,

You're right. Actually it is recommended in the document to build the 
package as perfsonar user.

Regards/Frederic

Maciej Glowiak a écrit :
> 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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