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

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 03:55 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> Also, I'd be happy to include the Debian packaging into the Lustre
> CVS repository so that e.g. "make debs" can be run to build the .deb
> packages, like "make rpms".  Unfortunately, my Debian-fu is low
> these days, so it would need to be in the form of a patch against
> Lustre, preferrably put in a bug.

My dpkg-fu is pretty low too, but I have put together a /debian dir that
builds the patchless client (and the userspace tools of course).  The
problem I always seem to run into is that at some point between sitting
down at a fresh debian (ubuntu in my case) system and getting all
packages produced, including both modules and userspace tools, one has
to be root for at least some of the time.  IIRC, it's usually the
module-assistant part that needs you to be (real, not fakeroot) root.

I think there is some way to use m-a with "-u" to get around this but
even then IIRC, m-a was pretty unhappy until I put lustre
into /usr/share/modass/compliant.list which again, required root.

Andreas, I'm not sure how you feel about it, but IMHO, its very
important that one can produce the full array of packages from a (say)
"make debs" in a lustre source pool without having to be(come) root at
any point in the process.

Would any of current debian package maintainers on this list like to
help us get to that point?

b.

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