[Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

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I've finally managed to package netperf-wrapper and an up-to-date (i.e.
2.6) version of netperf for Arch, Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

For those interested, the packages are available in a set of package
repositories located at http://archive.tohojo.dk/ . There are README
files explaining the use and right package manager incantations to use
them.

I've tested these packages on Arch, on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 12.04
(precise) and 12.10 (quantal). Comments / testing etc is of course
welcome; this is my first foray into Debian packaging.

The Arch repository has a packaged version of Dave's debloat script as
well, with a systemd unit file to run it. I'm planning to package that
up for Debian and Ubuntu as well, but am taking a break for the night
after fighting the deb packaging tools for way too long... ;)

-Toke

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Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/17/2013 07:38 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> well, with a systemd unit file to run it. I'm planning to package that
> up for Debian and Ubuntu as well, but am taking a break for the night
> after fighting the deb packaging tools for way too long... ;)

Once you've gotten some rest, I am interested in additional to the 
netperf TOT to enable debian-style packaging.  I asked the Debian 
upstream person about it but haven't gotten a response.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones

Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/18/2013 11:11 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Once you've gotten some rest, I am interested in additional to the
>> netperf TOT to enable debian-style packaging. I asked the Debian
>> upstream person about it but haven't gotten a response.
>
> Erm... TOT? :)

Sorry - TOT == Top Of Trunk - aka what one gets when pulling from 
http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk

rick

Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/19/2013 02:40 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Sorry - TOT == Top Of Trunk - aka what one gets when pulling from
>> http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk
>
> Right. As in, you would like to include the files required for packaging
> in the source repository?

Yes.

rick

Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/19/2013 09:33 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Yes.
>
> Well, I just basically grabbed the packaging of netperf 2.5.0 (think it
> was from the Ubuntu repositories) and repurposed it for 2.6.0. I can
> test it out for compiling from trunk and send you a patch-set? Or is
> there some reason you can't integrate the existing packaging scripts?

As to the first, a patch set would be great.  As to the second, got me - 
packaging is black art to me.

rick

Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/19/2013 09:59 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> As to the first, a patch set would be great.
>
> Right, I'll see what I can do.
>
>> As to the second, got me - packaging is black art to me.
>
> I was thinking more in terms of licensing or other reasons... :)

Ah yes, licensing - I guess netperf not being GPL would be an issue 
there because the debian packaging scripts are themselves GPL?

rick

Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones]

On 03/19/2013 10:17 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Ah yes, licensing - I guess netperf not being GPL would be an issue
>> there because the debian packaging scripts are themselves GPL?
>
> Yeah, I think they are by default. However, I looked at the 'copyright'
> file in the debian/ directory (which contains the packaging script), and
> couldn't find any reference to the license of the packaging files
> themselves; it only contained what appeared to be the list of copyrights
>  From netperf itself, with the name of the packager added on top.
>
> I suppose the safe thing to do would be to either (a) fire off an email
> to the packager and ask if he has any objections to his packaging being
> distributed as part of the netperf source, or (b) re-create the
> packaging script from scratch. As for (b), Debian does provide a set of
> scripts to scaffold the packaging scripts, so it might not be too hard
> to do. However, given that I am very much a Debian packaging novice,
> asking for permission to incorporate the existing packaging scripts
> might be worthwhile, at least as a first attempt.

I did send an email to the person I thought was the Debian mantainer - 
didn't get a response from him though.  Probably worth a second shot.

> What, btw, is the purpose of incorporating the packaging scripts? Do you
> want to provide ready-made .debs for download, or do you simply want to
> make it easier for others to create packages? And which distribution(s)
> are you planning to target?

The main reason is to make it easier for others to create packages, 
where others includes myself.

rick