[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Ganeti in Debian startup

[Iustin Pop]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:04:52PM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry for the delay, I sent this message a couple of days ago, unfortunately to
> the wrong list address! :/
> 
> So, it's time to get started with packaging Ganeti. The current situation is:
> 
> - leonardo has some packages available
> - we have some internal ones
> 
> Should we start from leonardo's ones and work on them? The issues we might want
> to discuss, before, are:
> 
> Revision Control System:
>   We are currently using subversion, iustin proposed switching to hg or git,
>   what do you think? I had applied for subversion because it's simple, and
>   ganeti is using it, but on the other hand other systems might have some
>   advantages (eg: the possibility of working with code reviews). We need to
>   decide whether to bother the alioth admins again to change or not...
I don't know how much trouble is to change the packages, and how well
the *-buildpackage tools work (e.g. hg-buildpackage, etc.)

> Licensing:
>   What should we licence the Debian package under? I'm personally against using
>   "GPL2 only" as it means we might have problems if ganeti switches to GPL3 at
>   any point because we won't have control on all the debian part of the code...
>   Nice options would be v2 or later, double licence under v2 and "the same
>   licence as ganeti itself" or just use "the same licence as ganeti itself"...
>   Or we could use BSD and forget about it... Any ideas? 
Heh, I didn't know the package needs to be under a specific license.
Let's go for v2 or later.

> FHS:
>   Before uploading we need to get rid of /srv/ganeti, which we cannot use for
>   packages... Possibilities would be creating it at cluster init time/node add
>   time if it doesn't exist, or moving to /var/share|lib/ganeti... Any other
>   ideas?
Is a package allowed to use /srv/foo but not to package it? Strange...

I don't have a good option. Maybe a patch to ganeti's autoconf to allow
to specify the actual path of images/OSes.

Also, I don't know about /var, since the exports can take a lot of space
and it could easily overflow var by mistake.

> Init/Cron:
>   Ganeti ships scripts which are debian policy compliant, or should anyway...
>   Shall we make debian/rules distribute those rather than copying them and use
>   our own? We can still add patches should we need any!
Yeah, I think so.

> Maintainer:
>   I'd say "Ganeti Packaging Team <pkg-ganeti-devel at alioth.debian.org>" and the
>   three of us listed as uploaders... Is that cool?
Yes!
> 
> Ok, I'm done for now... Waiting for your feedback to start! Thanks!

Hope this helps,
iustin