Hi Boris: Adam Lazur has done some work with porting OSCAR to Debian, perhaps you want to take a look at what he has done?
http://hackers.progeny.com/~laz/oscar-debian/ His version is only for IA64 however. It's great to know that someone is trying to pick up OSCAR for Debian, I for one will be very interested (since I am a Debian user). Please let us know if you need further assistance. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Boris Daix > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 0:52 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Oscar-devel] OSCAR4Debian > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
