Re: OpenVista for Ubuntu
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:47 -0800, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Bhaskar, hi Jonathan
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:56:19PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 22 November 2009 17:52:42 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:
> > > I remember there was talk on the Debian med list about a Debian package for
> > > OpenVista.
> > >
> > Maybe this link is helpful.
> >
> > https://medsphere.org/download/project/gtm
>
> I have downloaded
>
> http://launchpad.net/openvista-gtm-integration/mainline/0.8.6/+download/fis-gtm-5.3004a_5.3004a-0ubuntu1.dsc
>
> and noticed that Jonathan Tai is set as maintainer of the fis-gtm
> package. Bhaskar, is this somehow related to your intend to build
> (official) packages for Debian?
Hi Andreas,
I've been packaging GT.M for Ubuntu for a few months now with the aim of
making OpenVista easier to install on Ubuntu. I've succeeded in
creating packages that can be installed and removed cleanly, have the
proper dependencies, can be built from source, etc. However, the
packages I've created aren't "clean" in that they don't conform to the
FHS -- they just throw everything in /opt as if you used GT.M's
installer script. They also require root to build (debuild -r sudo),
since GT.M's installer doesn't honor DESTDIR. I've tried to overcome
these limitations by hacking the GT.M installer script and installing in
a fake chroot, but have run into problems with these approaches that I
believe will require upstream changes to GT.M to resolve. As a result,
I've given up on creating packages that can be accepted upstream in
Debian for the time being.
I think Bhaskar is attempting to create "clean" packages that would be
accepted upstream by Debian. When he completes his packages and they
are accepted upstream, I will likely adapt our openvista-* packages to
use Bhaskar's GT.M packages and stop packaging GT.M myself. In the
meantime, I hope that you and Bhaskar might find some of my packaging
work helpful -- if you see anything that can be used for the "clean"
packages, please use it.
- Jon
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