Perhaps we should expect users to install the prereqs separately on their own system. This way, it will offload the necessity for us to include these external libs that are not really part of Ganglia. Anyway, from Martin's list, we can cross out BSD... do we have the Solaris package maintainer (do we have one?) here? Thanks, Bernard
________________________________ From: Brooks Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 12/08/2006 16:28 To: Bernard Li Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stu Teasdale; ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] apr, expat, confuse as shipped with ganglia Throwing away all the external junk would not cause problems for any BSDs since we have perfectly good package systems. IMO, the lack of usable package systems on some platforms should not be our problem. -- Brooks On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi all: > > In discussion with Marcus Rueckert (SUSE Linux packager), he suggested a > solution which the subversion folks are doing in their latest 1.4.0 RC - to > ship dependencies in a separate tarball. This way, for Linux packagers, we > only need the "core" tarball and will not include the dependencies, then we > can simply link against whatever the distro provides. > > I think this is a good solution and will eliminate headaches for package > maintainers of the various distroes. > > Thanks! > > Bernard > > ________________________________ > > From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri 21/07/2006 02:21 > To: Bernard Li; Stu Teasdale; ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-developers] apr, expat, confuse as shipped with ganglia > > > > Hi Bernard, > > sorry for note commenting earlier. If we were only talking about > Linux, I would say we should just throw away the 3rd party stuff and > require the proper libraries being installed. > > Unfortunatelly this may cause trouble for those building on AIX, > HP-UX, Solaris, *BSD, ... > > Martin > > --- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Guys: > > > > I'd like to re-visit this old discussion thread. Would it be > > possible now to dynamically link against distro supplied apr, expact > > and confuse? It sounds like people have already been doing that > > without huge issues so perhaps we can make the official change in the > > code repository? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bernard > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stu > > Teasdale > > Sent: Thu 23/02/2006 08:53 > > To: ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] apr, expat, confuse as shipped with > > ganglia > > > > > > > > > > On 23 Feb 2006, at 01:07, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > > you may have seen the recent report about problems in apr code > > which > > > are solved in later versions. This opens the question how to handle > > > this for Ganglia. > > > > > > Are the versions of apr, expat and confuse shipped with the > > current > > > code just unmodified copies of the stuff, or are there ganglia > > > specific > > > changes in there? > > > > > > What are your thoughts on upgrading the stuff to newer versions? > > Did > > > you have a strategy/policy for that in the past? > > > > From a packaging POV it's generally nicer to use the shipped > > versions of these libs dynamically linked, for a variety of reasons. > > To this end where possible I've changed the build in the debian > > packages to dynamically link against the distribution's libraries. To > > > > this end my 3.0.1 gmetad packages dynamically link agains the > > distro's apr and expat (but not confuse AFAICS, I suspect that's a > > bug). > > > > It all seems to work ok, and there are a few people out there using > > my packages (it can't go into debian till the glibc code problem is > > resolved). > > > > Stu > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > > webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > > territory! > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-developers mailing list > > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Martin Knoblauch > email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de > www: http://www.knobisoft.de > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
