[BlueOnyx:04236] Re: BlueOnyx on Ubuntu server

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Trond,

> What would it take to port blueOnyx to Ubuntu / Debian servers? 

About 800 man hours of work for the initial porting and testing, a proper 
infrastructure of mirrors to distribute the updates and 2-5 work days a month 
for updates.

So in short: Unless someone invests a lot of time (and money) into it, it 
ain't happening.

Don't get me wrong: Debian is a nice distribution, but all things considered 
it doesn't do things much better than CentOS to warrant such an undertaking.

All the development tools for BlueOnyx are focussed on RPM based 
distributions, too. So one of the very first steps of the porting procedure 
would have to be to port the build environment itself to create Debian 
packages instead of RPMs. That alone is a major effort. Next you'd have to 
port CCE and all modules over and have to adapt them to Debian specific 
oddities, which will be the majority of the work.

After all the work is done, you'll have a box that looks and feels just the 
same as BlueOnyx on CentOS, but that isn't compatible. PKGs designed for 
BlueOnyx on CentOS will not work, tips and tricks that might apply to BlueOnyx 
on CentOS will most likely not apply to BlueOnyx on Debian and so on. 

Bottom line: It's possible, but what would be the gain? I don't see any.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber