[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Dave Love]

Timothy Karl <karl at rostlab.org> writes:

> My name is Timothy Karl and I work with Laszlo Kajan on a daily basis
> here. We are both on the gridengine Debian team.

I didn't know there was such a team.

> Laszlo Kajan and I have finally managed to sit down together and start
> bringing your SGE source to a working Debian package.

Thanks.  I'm not sure I knew what I was doing and there are a number of
potential issues I didn't know how to address.

> We have successfully built the Debian packages using your source
> snapshot (sge-20121118.tar.gz) and gridengine Debian-ization repo at
> http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/{git,hg}/gridengine.debian.

Do you know if it will build on all the Debian architectures?  (If not
it should be simple to fix.)

> At this point, we stumbled over one issue only. There was a missing
> build dependency - libhwloc-dev.

Oops, thanks!  I must have forgotten to add that after testing on
systems initially without a new enough hwloc.

I should make a list of the things I think need checking or thinking
about, if you could look at it.

> Perhaps it would be a good idea to change the name from gridengine to
> sge. Could you update the Debian-ization with the new name please?

I can, but why?  I don't feel strongly about the name, but I don't see
the need to change it, as it's the same system, and I'd have thought it
would just cause confusion and potential problems to change it.

> We will next test the built packages on our VM running
> Debian-unstable, hopefully sometime this week. We'll let you know what
> turns up.

I did that (but rather trivially, and a while ago), but great if you can
do more.  One bug that may show up specifically on unstable (or
testing?) is <https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/ticket/1437>.