Gennaro, I just a more detailed look at your munge packages from November -- nice work!
Finer grained than the simple package I made myself at work, and with the additional bells and whistles we'd want in Debian (munge user, correct directories, debconf, ...) . I also rebuilt using Chris' newer 0.5.8 sources I have been using at work using your debian/ directory. One change I could suggest is a slight rewording of the Descriptions in debian/control and maybe the debconf template. I can send you a patch if you want. I'll test them a little at work, and barring surprises there, I think we should upload this to Debian. As far as I know you are not yet a Debian developer so I could act as your Sponsor and uploader -- unless Joss wants to do that as he indicated in the fall. I don't to jump the queue here -- I'd be bery happy to see Joss sponsor it. I'd simply would like to see munge in Debian fairly soon. As for the /dev/random vs /dev/urandom issue: I'd go with /dev/urandom in the postinst. You did the Right Thing in the README.Debian to point to Chris' QUICKSTART notes, and the debconf template mentions it as well. I simply think that most installations will be behind institutional firewalls so that the simpler entropy is 'good enough'. Worst case, we could offer a second debconf question about 'strong entropy using /dev/random (slow)' vs 'weaker entropy using /dev/urandom (fast)'. Or use /dev/urandom but print a big fat debconf warning .... I think /dev/random is simply unuseable in a postinst. Comments? Dirk On 7 March 2007 at 07:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi Gennaro, | | On 7 March 2007 at 11:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi Dirk, | | sorry for quoting all your mail, I do it for Josselin convenience. If | | you check the slurm-llnl ITP Bug report logs (351688) [Bug] you | | will see that Joss has offered himself for sponsorship. | | Ahh, I missed that. I saw Thijs response to your initial RFS, but not the | ITP. Cool. | | | Anyway I'm still waiting for some feedback and help about my last | | package version (especially about the /dev/random problem) and I don't | | know if Joss is still interested in working on this. | | Let's take it off-line then. I used /dev/urandom in postinst for munge but | then realized that you don't really need or want this as the crypto key is | generated only once and then copied across the cluster. | | | | In general any comment about my package are welcome. At the moment I | | have uploaded on my repository the version I'm using, but I can provide | | an update version of the package soon. | | I'll have a look and maybe update my installation to your versions. | | | I'm happily working with munge and slurm on my debian cluster and | | I would like to see it uploaded to the main distribution and to | | contribute to this. Thanks for your interest | | Same here. Thanks for your work on this -- we'll have slurm and munge in | Debian before long. | | Dirk | | | | | Gennaro | | | | [Bug] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351688 | | | | On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:40:10PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > | | > Hi all, | | > | | > Last August, I started a short discussion here regarding batch management / | | > queue / scheduler / resource managment software for cluster computing. I | | > already mentioned slumrm [1] and munge [2]. The conclusion then was | | > unsatisfying -- we don't have anything in Debian. At the time, I was unaware | | > of Gennaro Oliva's mail to debian-mentors [3] and his package snapshots. | | > | | > To cut a long story short, I built two crude packages today I would like to | | > offer for co-maintenance. Given my existing 80-some Debian packages, I really | | > shouldn't take any more on. The crude packages will do for work, so if | | > nobody has time or energy to pick them up ... I won't push the issue either. | | > Because the packages deal with resources, authentication, ... they are not | | > exactly trivial and would need some tender love and care to be done real | | > well. They mostly autoconf fine, esp munge. Slurm needs a replacement | | > scripts for /etc/init.d, a few contributed manual pages but nothing major. | | > | | > That said, I think it would be worth it. I am quite impressed with slurm. | | > For a quick overview, see the website [1] and e.g. the recent presentation | | > from 2006 [4] . Slurm is under active development and just released 1.2.1, | | > it now even has a nice little gtk-based gui. [ Munge is used by slurm and is | | > a smaller/simpler package. It already detects Debian in its init.d script and | | > does The Right Thing. ] | | > | | > Gennaro: Are you still interested in working on this? I could possibly act | | > as mentor and 'final compiler / uploader'. | | > | | > Anybody else working on clusters who needs a DFSG-free resource manager / | | > scheduler? | | > | | > Dirk | | > | | > [1] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/ | | > [2] http://home.gna.org/munge/ -- but really also from llnl.gov | | > [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/05/msg00020.html | | > [4] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/slurm_design.pdf | | > | | > -- | | > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. | | > -- Thomas A. Edison | | -- | Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. | -- Thomas A. Edison -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
