Re: mosix package
> First, let me say how cool it is that you're doing this!
Thanks..!
> If you want to change priority, instead of
> update-rc.d mosix defaults
> use
> update-rc.d mosix defaults 90
>
> To still just use dh_installinit, give it a flag at the end like
> dh_installinit -- defaults 90
> and it should add the "90" where it belongs. (I think.)
I tried that, but it doesn't work. It gives an error about wrong parameters
during installing the deb.
> Doesn't the MOSIX stuff include a hacked version of "ps" that needs to
> be installed, and of "top" too, and maybe some other stuff? I vaguely
> recall... I think you could just put them in the package with an
> "override: procps" dependency to prevent dpkg from getting upset. And
> maybe also a "depends: procps (= 1:2.0.7-4)", if you think version
> skew on that might prevent appropriate security updates or such.
Hmm, I haven't got the contrib files yet. I think it would be a good idea
to call these as mosix_top and mosix_ps or something. That way, they wouldn't
interfere with the normal ps and top.
> Or maybe it would be better to put them in a separate package, like
> mosix-bins or something like that.
>
> I guess that applied in general. Maybe the package should be fragmented:
>
> mosix-dev (for .h files, .a files, symbolic link for .so files)
> mosix-bin (all ...bin/xxx programs, their shared libs, configuration stuff)
> mosix-kernel-patch (just the actual patches)
Thats right. I have now made mosix, mosix-dev, and mosix-kernel-patches.
Mosix include files by default install into /usr/include. I just used an
mkdir and mv in the rules to move it to /usr/include/mosix. Is there a better
way to do this ? From the user's perspective, it looks fine though.
Also, the patch is in 2 parts. The standard kernel patch is easy to handle.
However, the other is a tar file which just has to be untarred and used. I
don't know how to do that with dh_installkpatches.
> As a dream, it would be nice to use debconf to set parameters:
> accept foreign processes?
> automatically migrate processes to other hosts?
> <filesystem related configuration>
> Not sure if
> List all hosts in cluster, one per line, followed by blank line:
> would be appropriate.
That I can try later, once the core packages are done. :-)
Again, I am uploading the new packages to
http://people.debian.org/~viral/mosix/
viral
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