Ocfs2 users - Jul 2005 - Re: new ocfs2 packages for Gentoo Linux

Cc'ing ocfs2-users.

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:39:35PM -0400, Mauricio Zambrano S.
wrote:
>    I ve just made available ocfs2 and ocfs2-tools package for Gentoo 
> Linux on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98024.
	We'll have a look in a little bit.  I don't know gentoo
packaging guidelines, so it might take a while.
>    I also have a question for you, I was testing ocfs2 but when I run 
> the Oracle Cluster Ready Services(OCRS) and it ask me the file location 
> for the Oracle Cluster Registry File it always show me an error that 
> tells me "Oracle Cluster Registry can exist only as a shared file
system
> file or as a shared raw partition" and I m trying to install it on my 
> ocfs2 partition (/u02). You can see the log of my OCRS installation on 
> http://webdb.homelinux.com/oracle/ocr.
	You need to mount the partition that CRS will uses with "-o
datavolume".  This enables some compatitbility.  Do NOT use "-o
datavolume" for your binaries, etc.  It's a compatibility measure that
will go away in the future.

Joel

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:07:34AM -0700, Joel Becker
wrote:
> Cc'ing ocfs2-users.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:39:35PM -0400, Mauricio Zambrano S. wrote:
> >    I ve just made available ocfs2 and ocfs2-tools package for Gentoo 
> > Linux on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98024.
> 
> 	We'll have a look in a little bit.  I don't know gentoo
> packaging guidelines, so it might take a while.
I took a quick look. There are a number of issues with the packaging,
which seem to stem from the ebuild stuff being copied from ocfs 1.x
packaging and not being updated to reflect the current state of things.

Kernel module:
* There isn't an --enable-aio configure option anymore. In fact, there
  aren't any optional features controlled by configure at all.
* You seem to be creating a cluster.conf here. There's no way to provide
  a default for this, so what is being put here exactly. Regardless, the
  cluster.conf stuff should be the domain of the tools package, not the
  kernel module.

Tools:
* There is a dependency on pygtk, not gtk+ itself (and certainly not
  such an ancient version as 1.2.8).
* There's a ton of missing dependencies too, like com_err, libuuid,
  libblkid, readline, and python.
* --enable-ocfs2tool is now --enable-ocfs2console
* There's --enable-dynamic-fsck and --enable-dynamic-ctl, which should
  be used instead of non-static.patch.
* The o2cb init script is completely ignored.

I suggest you look at the rpm and deb packaging and try to mimic that as
closely as possible.

-Manish