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Re: Ubuntu TSM debs now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jun 8 19:55:44 2011
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Cc: Anders H Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
"release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:55:35 -0400
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On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 18:49 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 18:12 -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> >>> I've built 32 and 64 bit TSM backup debs.
> >> ...
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> >> Do you have a source package that you built these from, or did you build
> >> binary packages directly in some other way?
> >
> > They came from several binary rpms intended for RHEL systems supplied by
> > IBM, plus a few modifications I made to make them work on (several
> > versions of) Ubuntu. IBM makes a point of stating that they don't
> > support Ubuntu.
>
> Do you have a script for converting the RPMs to Ubuntu packages, or
> something?
No, I did it by hand (I used the tar archives I had made, but built
those by hand after installing the rpms on a Fedora machine).
> (The packaging I'm mentioning from Marco D'Itri is a Debian
> source package that expects you to place the .rpms in the parent directory
> or some other specified directory, and in the Debian source build stage,
> unpacks them into the Debian package's temporary build directoy.)
I didn't know about his packages when I got started. It wasn't a whole
lot of work to do things by hand, anyhow, and it helped me get a feel
for how things were set up by IBM.
A.
