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Re: Ubuntu TSM debs now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Jun 8 18:27:00 2011
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:26:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1106081802270.23145@dr-wily.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>> I've built 32 and 64 bit TSM backup debs. Please check/test and let me
>> know if they're OK:
>>
>> https://web.mit.edu/alexp/Public/tsm-backup_6.2.2.00ubuntu11.4_i386.deb
>> https://web.mit.edu/alexp/Public/tsm-backup_6.2.2.00ubuntu11.4_amd64.deb
>
> I haven=E2=80=99t tried installing these, but just from looking at the pa=
ckages I
> note the following:
>
> Natty is ubuntu11.04, not ubuntu11.4. Though you probably don=E2=80=99t =
need that
> tag at all if the same packages are intended to be used across multiple
> Ubuntu releases. The right version is probably something like
> 6.2.2.00-0mit1.
>
> Packages are not supposed to install into /opt or /usr/local. Unless
> upstream doesn=E2=80=99t let you change this, I would try to put most thi=
ngs into
> somewhere like /usr/lib/tsm-backup.
Upstream TSM seems to really like using both /opt and /usr/local. (Sorry I=
=20
didn't update on this after sending my initial e-mail requesting .debs.)=20
And it's not uncommon for vendor .debs to use /opt -- I think some of=20
Google's packages do this. In any case, Marco d'Itri's packaging of TSM=20
uses these locations, to stay true to the upstream binary RPMs.
> If you run =E2=80=98lintian=E2=80=99 on your packages, you=E2=80=99ll fin=
d several screenfuls of
> errors and warnings. Some of them might be unavoidable, but most are
> worth paying attention to. (Especially the files owned by uid 20353
> instead of root.)
>
> Do you have a source package that you built these from, or did you build
> binary packages directly in some other way?
>
> Anders
>
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