perfsonar development work

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

Hi Gijs,

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 11:31, Gijs Molenaar wrote:
> Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> > - We use the standard Perl way to create (CPAN style) packages, but use
> > some special tricks, to make things easy for us.
>
> Do you already create RPM/DEB packages?

We created Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE packages so far. openSUSE ones are 
definitively broken. I'm really not sure about the Debian ones... Fedora RPMs 
are the ones that were tested.

> > - We have our own repository for our code, that is driven by different
> > needs, then the Java repository.
> >
> > My idea here would be: It is fairly easy to create CPAN style tarballs
> > from our repository. These tarballs can normally be used in every Perl
> > friendly operating system to create native packages very easily. Setting
> > up an automated process for this should be possible. What do you think?
>
> Sounds good.

I think it might be a good idea to create tarballs from our repository. You 
can fetch these tarballs from us e.g. via HTTP. Then you can create all 
packages you like from these tarballs.
I'm not sure where and how the package manager configuration files (like the 
SPEC files for RPM) should be kept and maintained, though.

> Or, if you already create RPM/DEB packages you can give me 
> to me, I take a look at them if they are LSB compatible and I put them
> in the repository.

Perhaps you should put the Fedora RPMs from the wiki page
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/BWCTL_and_OWAMP_MP
into the repository.

greetings,
Jochen

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