On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:06:32AM +0100, Jeremy Lainé wrote: > > I already ha d deep look at the current packaging included in upstream git, > > basically the initscripts need to be rewritten as they are full of > > redhadisms, but thats'it basically. > > As far as I can tell, the packaging in upstream git (and upstream tarballs) > is a > not-quite-up-to-date copy of the Ubuntu packaging for ocfs2-tools 1.3.9. I > disagree about > rewriting the initscripts, until now the init scripts shipped with Debian > have always been > based on upstream with some minor Debian patches, and upstream has integrated > all these > patches. As time is short for lenny I'd rather stick to well-tested upstream > init scripts.
Again, let me know if anything doesn't work. > > To your question, Alioth seems fine to me, but why not use oracle git, and > > make it a native package? > > I'd rather go the opposite way: ask upstream to drop the packaging in their > git which is > not quite up to date, and encourage them (and Ubuntu maintainers) to > contribute to the > packaging on alioth. Is there some cluster-related project on Alioth we can > tack onto or > should I ask for a new project? Why can't we just make our packaging up to date? Regarding Alioth, what do we gain? git is a distributed system, so it's plenty collaborative. Joel -- A good programming language should have features that make the kind of people who use the phrase "software engineering" shake their heads disapprovingly. - Paul Graham Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]