Hello Jacek,

Qserv already need some rpm dependencies when it's installed. So packaging
it as a rpm would only require the sysadmin to install a (few) rpm more.
Qserv, once installed with root account, could then run under user account
named qserv, and wouldn't require no more root privileges, (Mysql and
Apache httpd are usually installed this way on linux boxes). This could be
an interesting intermediate solution, but root account would still be
needed at bootstrap.

rpm would be an easy solution to install Qserv, but it also require to
check that all qserv dependencies, that are compiled during automated
install procedure, are also available as rpm, and with compatible
versions. I think it also required to build a rpm for xrootd patched
version, and maybe for scisql (unless they can be embedded in Qserv rpm
?).

So it seems there's some job to build this rpm. I can first study this if
you want, in order to list all the tasks needed to do this. Maybe a
comparison with a eups full install could be also usefull ?

Have a nice day,

Fabricea

P.S. : Thanks for sending the coordinates of yesterday meeting, but, even
if i was very interested,  i wasn't able to come, sorry. I will be avaible
next tuesday.

On Thu, September 19, 2013 6:57 pm, Jacek Becla wrote:
> Fabrice
>
>
> We would very much like to use something like rpm for packaging
> qserv. One concern that I have is that RPMs are easy to install in system
> space, but not in user space, and we often want to install qserv in user
> space. (If someone knows how to easily install RPMs in user space, let me
> know!)
>
> Thanks,
> Jacek
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 09/19/2013 01:47 AM, Fabrice Jammes wrote:
>
>> Hello Douglas and Daniel,
>>
>>
>> Hope Daniel is having nice vacations ;-)
>>
>>
>> Here's a short documentation about qserv init.d scripts :
>> https://dev.lsstcorp.org/trac/wiki/db/Qserv/initd
>> and the associated ticket : https://dev.lsstcorp.org/trac/ticket/3013
>>
>>
>> I think it might help to package qserv as a RPM, and also for testing
>> and data loading procedure.
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>>
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>>
>> On 09/12/2013 06:35 PM, Daniel L. Wang wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> Few comments:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/12/2013 02:53 AM, Fabrice Jammes wrote:
>>>
>>>> - get the meta for W13 (meta/initMetadata.sh),
>>>>
>>> None of us have made it yet, so the best thing to do is to read the
>>> metadata docs, propose a set of values, and we will check it to see if
>>>  it's reasonable (or you can play with some settings and see what
>>> sorts of behavior/performance you get).
>>>
>>>> - fine grained start/stop/status scripts for Qserv services (needed
>>>> now by test procedure to orchestrate services startup and
>>>> initialization)
>>> Let's come up with a list of these services and the actions to
>>> perform (if different from: stop, start, restart, [reload?]).
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Have a great meeting!
>>> -DAniel
>>>
>>>
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