[Linux-cluster] Making gfs-deploy-tool dist agnostic (somewhat)

[Nathan J Dragun]

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at netsyncro.com>
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:15 pm
Subject: [Linux-cluster] Making gfs-deploy-tool dist agnostic (somewhat)

> I'm trying to really clean up my cluster deployment and while 
> looking at 
> GFS came across this.
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/rkenna/gfs-deploy-tool/html.doc/
> 
> To be upfront, I my dist of choice doesn't use an rpm based binary 
> package system.  Is there or would there be any objection to add in 
> the 
> ability for other backends.. eg.. debs?  My timeframe is about 30 
> days 
> to take a poke at this so I'm in no rush.  Any feedback is 
> appreciated.
> Cheers,
> 
> Christopher
> 
You should be able to just install the deb based "rpm" package, which will allow you to install rpm based packages.