[Pkg-gridengine-devel] pkg-gridengine first steps

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:17:05AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 24, Apr, 2007 at 12:03:37AM +0200, Michael Banck spoke thus..
> >> sorry, I wanted to mail earlier but I was a bit busy over the weekend
> >> visiting my parents.
> > 
> > Yeah, I wanted to look at this earlier but had a busy weekend too.
> > 
> >> Anyway, I checked in the debian/ directory of my old work on gridengine
> >> to svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gridengine/trunk/debian , comment very
> >> welcome.
> Builds fine for lenny/i386 and lenny/amd64 in pbuilder enviroments.

Excellent.
 
> >> Using sgeadmin as admin user seems reasonable to me, just getting a
> >> dynamically allocated system uid/gid seems enough for me. However, does
> >> it make sense to have that user at all? If somebody knows about the
> >> security implications etc., please speak up.
> In README.Debian you mentioned sge_admin, but I'd suggest sgeadmin which
> has only 8 chars and won't get truncated/displayed numerically.

Yes, sgeadmin is certainly better, adduser doesn't like the underscore
anyway.
 
> Michael, you should probably retitle #150124 ITP and mention the new
> alioth project there.

Ah right, I forgot about mentioning writing an ITP.  If I can get
#150124 reactivated, even better.


Michael