Debian/GNU Linux OMSA 5.1 package

[Sander Keemink]

Hello Sean and other amd64 users,

We are working on adding amd64 to the repository, we will do it as soon
as possible (when we have some time to spare).

Kind regards

Sander Keemink

-----Original Message-----
From: sean finney [mailto:sean at stickybit.se] 
Sent: donderdag 16 november 2006 12:51
To: Sander Keemink
Cc: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: Debian/GNU Linux OMSA 5.1 package

hi sander,

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:39 +0100, Sander Keemink wrote:

> The new OMSA 5.1 has been debianized by Bas vd Vlies and myself.

that's great news. thanks for the work on this.  FYI: for those of
you who want to install the deb on an "amd64" system without having
to pass --force-architecture to dpkg:

deb=yourfile.deb
        ar x $deb control.tar.gz
        mkdir control
        sudo tar xfz control.tar.gz -C control
        sudo sed -i -e 's/i386/amd64/' control/control
        sudo tar cfz ./control.tar.gz -C control .
        sudo rm -rf control
        ar r $deb control.tar.gz
        rm -f control.tar.gz
        rename s/i386/amd64/ $deb

this is mostly superficial, and it doesn't take into account the
additional dependencies (ia32-libs and lib32ncurses5, at least),
but it does allow you to create an apt-get'able deb.  and you
don't even need debian specific tools to do it.


also, i've been spending a bit of time trying to get something
a bit more modular based building debs from the actual rpms
with a 1:1 mapping.  i have the debs generated and they seem
to install, but there seem to be some issues i haven't worked
out yet as i can't get any of the services to start.  and i'm quickly
losing interest in continuing if someone is already providing something
that works :)


	sean