[BlueOnyx:04244] Re: BlueOnyx on Ubuntu server

[Trond Husø]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:02 +0200, Michael Stauber wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hi Michael,

A pretty good answer, and nice to have in the archive in case someone
asks the same question. 

The only gain would be that BlueOnyx (which then might be called
BrownOnyx ;) ) would be available for more than one platform. On the
other hand. It sure ain't necessary. 


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