Hello, I've got RedHat Enterprise WS and AS here, I can help in building an RPM for those platforms (particularly WS which our node is running on).
Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Uram > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:59 PM > To: Douglas Kosovic; will...@itee.uq.edu.au; > jos...@cs.usyd.edu.au; dgol...@cp.dias.ie; Jason Hill > Cc: AG Technical Developers > Subject: [AG-TECH] Linux Packaging for AGTk 2.2 > > > > With the release of the AGTk 2.2 beta, we've entered the last > phase of > the 2.2 development cycle, and need to consider packaging for > the final > release. Based on your responses (if you're in the To: line), you've > expressed some interest in packaging the AG toolkit for a linux > distribution that we (Argonne) are not providing; in particular: > > Doug Kosovic - Fedora > Chris Willing - Slackware > Joseph Pachod - Debian/Gnoppix > David Golden - Debian > > If I've missed anyone, please let me know. > > During this release, we've worked to develop a build process > that would > accommodate alternate distributions. You may have seen the source > tarball that is available on the beta release page: > > > http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/re leases/2.2/redhat.html This should include everything that was used to build the linux beta package. The build process includes a hierarchy of scripts that begins with AccessGrid/packaging/BuildSnapshot.py, and progresses down to more specific BuildPackage scripts. We're using packaging/linux/rpm/BuildPackage.py to build the RedHat73 package; additional directories could be added under packaging/linux for distro-specific details that you identify. I need to write up the details of the linux build process and get that out to all of you; I'll try to do that over the weekend. In the meantime, if you want to take a look at the source tarball and the build scripts, feel free to do so and ask questions as often as necessary. It would be great to be able to announce support for distributions other than RedHat for the final release. If there's anything we can do to help with packaging, please let us know. Thanks for your help, Tom/The AG Team
