[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Open Grid Scheduler (resubmit as a list member)

[Dave Love]

Sorry for the delay.

Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:

> Excellent, I want to help! Tim (our sysadmin): do you want to join in? - get some Debian packaging training? If not, I am going to help Dave myself.
>
> Dave, let me know how I can help. We have a Debian stable cluster here, a Debian unstable virtual machine for packaging and a CentOS 5 testing
> (virtual) machine.
>
> Where do you keep the Debianization of [4]?

I'm not at the stage of having a workable packaging, I'm afraid, and
wasn't initially aiming for something that would be acceptable for
Debian, just a normal /opt installation.  For my purposes, it has to be
a shareable installation (in a stateless cluster), and I'm not sure
whether that's even possible with Debian packaging constraints.  (It's
possible a shared installation can legitimately live under /srv -- I
don't know.)  I'm not a dpkg/Debian policy expert, and still trying to
learn what's involved.

I have been trying to maintain something that at least doesn't need
patching for Debian, though my attempt to make the editor configurable
to "sensible-editor", or whatever it is, fell foul of the horrors of csh
which the nasty build process currently relies on.

I can't devote significant time to this just now, partly because I'm
trying to get out a general release, but I should be able to get back to
it.  Judging by the recent random NMU, and past experience, I'm not
going to be able to do much directly for Debian, though.