[cs615asa] build install and file sections

[John Scire]

Oh okay gotcha. But then in the case of including it, do specify the 
dependencies for the utilities or let rpmbuild hardwire them into the 
package?

Thanks again,
John Scire

On 2/17/2014 9:07 PM, Nicholas Bevacqua wrote:
> I just added that utilities directory for completeness since it came 
> with statsd but you don't need it to run the daemon.
>
> /Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID/
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>
> John Scire <jscire at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
> Okay cool. I didn't include the utilities, but when i include them in 
> my build, its listing a bunch more dependencies, most likely because  
> one of the files is a perl program. I don't see anywhere where 
> stats.js calls this specifically, but is it a necessity that we have 
> it? Also, I noticed that when you build the rpm package, it actually 
> automatically adds a lot of dependencies on its own, specifically the 
> ones that are needed to run the files in the utilities. So when 
> installing, these new dependencies are listed, which is a nice feature.
>
> Thanks again,
> John Scire
>
> On 2/17/2014 8:22 PM, Nicholas Bevacqua wrote:
>> Correct. I included the license file and readme with the 
>> documentation, as well at the utilities directory, but I left out 
>> tests and such from the package
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Nicholas Bevacqua
>>
>> /Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID/
>>
>>
>> John Scire <jscire at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>
>> As for what files we need to package in, we only need the files
>> necessary for it to run and the documentation, correct? We can leave out
>> the other misc. files/directories in the statsd source tarball?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> John Scire
>>
>> On 2/17/2014 5:30 PM, nbevacqu wrote:
>> > I think I managed to answer all of your questions below. Let me know
>> > if I accidentally forgot one.
>> >
>> >> I am reasonably sure from the documentation I have found that for this
>> >> exercise the build section is not needed. There is no make file or
>> >> anything else to build. Is there anything else to do in this section
>> >> besides:
>> >>
>> >> %build
>> >> echo "nothing to build"
>> >
>> > I left build blank since the code is interpreted by nodejs, not 
>> compiled.
>> >
>> >> Clone the project ( this is take care of in the prep section)
>> >
>> > You shouldn't clone the project here as it introduces an unnecessary
>> > dependence on github. Instead, you should clone the project and create
>> > your own .tar.gz file to hold all the source code (minus the .git
>> > folder and .gitignore file of course). You can then place that archive
>> > inside the SOURCES directory.
>> >
>> >> Create a config file from exampleConfig.js and put it somewhere
>> >> (should the install section create this or just use this)
>> >
>> > For the config file, I kept the example config file and just placed it
>> > in the appropriate place after renaming it. I did not include any code
>> > to run node in my spec file (ex: node stats.js config.js). I put my
>> > config file in /etc/statsd and the code/documentation inside
>> > /usr/share/statsd and /usr/share/doc/statsd respectively.
>> >
>> >> Do we just have to put the executable in /usr/bin and make sure that
>> >> the dependencies are taken care of? Should we take the default
>> >> configuration and put it into the same dir as statsd?
>> >
>> > The executable included in the bin directory assumes that the
>> > executable is in the same folder at the lib directory. As such, I did
>> > not install it in /usr/bin. Since the executable just ran node
>> > stats.js, I didn't bother to include this file at all for the time 
>> being.
>> >
>> >> Finally for the files section we should be specifying where everything
>> >> goes but do we specify every file or do we just specify the special
>> >> ones to treat differently during build time?
>> >
>> > You have to move the files themselves into the appropriate place
>> > during the install process. Under the %files section, list all the
>> > files/directories you installed.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Nicholas Bevacqua
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