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

["C. Bergström"]

Nathan J Dragun wrote:
> ----- 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.
I'll have to actually try using this to understand what this means, but 
from what I read.. gfs-deploy will initiate the install of any 
additional deps (rpms) needed for the target nodes?  Granted I can 
change my images to include the deps by default, but is really the same 
functionality?  w/o having actually tried this. will the deployment fail 
if it doesn't find the "rpms"..

Thanks

C.