Hello there, (I've just subscribed to this list so please forgive my newbiness.)
I've been working on adapting OSCAR to Debian since may 3, in my internship at EDF/R&D[1]. The main project is to build a full, Debian-based workstation for scientific computation -- one component of which is, of course, clustering software. EDF logically wants to make OSCAR usable within Debian since it would make everything Debian-based for them (hence better maintainable for deployment services). Note that I may, one day soon, follow the long way to become Debian Developer. It will then be easy to upload whatever piece of software into Debian if it's not in yet. I've hardly worked on packaging openpbs and maui: what I mean is having software built, installable, runnable and uploadable in Debian -- but mostly to make them Debian Policy[2] compliant. I've also done such a task with pfilter, oda and c3 tools. I'm about to do the job for env-switcher and few others. Moreover, Debian already provides lam, pvm, mpich, hdf5 and so on -- so I don't have to adapt the whole stuff. In fact, I first make packages for Debian, then I make OSCAR packages depend upon them. That's the better way, IMHO, to get both OSCAR and Debian powers sat together. I plan to get advantage of brand-new Debian-Installer to customize Sarge so that it becomes OSCAR-enabled, as RPM-based distros do. But before that I'd like to be able to run OSCAR upon a standard Sarge (first installed without OSCAR). I'm now considering adapting the installing frontend: I noticed that perl-QT (libqt-perl in Debian) was required to run OSCAR GUIs, but what is that OSCAR-specific so we have to build it ourselves (same questions for each of lib/*)? I noticed the use of autoconf too: what job does it do, regarding GUIs? I'll be happy to give more details on my work. Please be aware of that CVS access is closed by EDF's proxies, so I may miss some pieces sometimes. My job is currenty based upon oscar-3.0.tgz. Regards, [1] http://retd.edf.fr/ [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ -- Boris Daix ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
