As part of our test deployment of GlusterFS onto Ubuntu servers I've done some work on the Debian packaging of GlusterFS and I'd like to feed that back to you. I've taken the 1.3.9 GlusterFS packages from Li Daobing's Package Archive on Launchpad: https://edge.launchpad.net/~lidaobing/+archive and made the following changes. I found that the combined package wasn't at all useful when deploying glusterfs to several machines. So I've split out client and server into glusterfs-client and glusterfs-server. The client does not need any init scripts or config files since it will get that from the server. The server is essentially the client with a default config in place that shares '/srv/share' locally. It also contains an up to date LSB init script that starts glusterfs on boot correctly. Other than that I've made some minor changes to the packaging so that it picks up the right manual pages, creates separate relevant README files and generally operates in Debian Policy compliant manner. The backported packages are available for Ubuntu Hardy at https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ruby-backports/+archive The git repository for the packaging is here: http://github.com/NeilW/deb-glusterfs/tree I've uploaded the package to Ubuntu REVU here: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2745. You can see the debdiff with Li's package here: http://revu.tauware.de/diff.py?upid1=2744&upid2=2745 I would hope that this packaging is now ready for inclusion within Debian if anybody is taking that forward. -- Neil Wilson
