Re: configuring...

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> For example, I'd be happy to see a GNU team that has as close to all of the
> GNU utilities listed in it.  At some point, some other policy team decides
> whether or not the 'g' prefix needs to be added, or if all of the gnu
> utilities will be installed (deployed?) under /usr/local/gnu/ .

I can definitely see the merit of a "universal" team that contains the
things that are true, irrespective of whether you are using sidai or not.
For instance:

	- how to compile and install a particular (GNU or other) package.
	  This procedure is package specific, but nothing really to do
          with sidai. So, <compile>, <check>, <install> methods would be
	  in "universal", but <deploy>, <reveal> etc. would remain in
	  sidai

	- the location of standard resources:

	eg. universal/hosts/rhlinux.xml might contain
	    <sys-cc>/usr/bin/gcc</sys-cc>

	    with nonsidai/host/rhlinux.xml using this value:
	    <cc>@host:sys-cc</cc>

	    but sidai/hosts/rhlinux.xml still insists we use our own gcc:

	    <cc>
	    <constraint><dependency type="essential" name="gcc"/></constraint>
            <string>/our/bin/gcc</string>
            </cc>

 	 This would hopefully ease the configuration problem.


So now, the prototype tree for gcc--2.95.2 might look like:

-  myteam: gcc--2.95.2
   -  universal: gcc--2.95.2
       - universal: gcc
   -  myteam: ALL
   -  sidai: ALL

Matt