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• Launchpad Entry: server-packages-review

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Overview

Comparing ourselves to our coopetitors is a necessary task to know where we are at and decide where we could get better.

Comparison

Package comparison

We should categorize the missing ones in three categories.

• agreed: means that we both agreed that we should pull them in supported list (but still open for discussion/input)
• to discuss: we did not agree and we want to discuss it at UDS
• to research: we need further research before being conclusive

Agreed

• acl - OK
• java support + servlet engine + application server
• dds2tar - NO
• radius sever (freeradius ? openradius ?) - OK (freeradius)
• gawk (already in main, should be in seed)
• ibmasm - OK
• heartbeat2 - OK
• iscsi - OK
• iscsitarget - OK
• latex2html - NO
• logwatch - OK
• lmsensors - Include in the server seed
• lprng - NO
• lsscsi - OK
• libapache2-mod-auth-kerb - OK
• mtx - OK
• openIPMI - OK
• openhpi - OK
• openmpi - NO
• opensm - OK
• openxdas - NO
• pam_krb5 - OK
• pam_mount - OK
• pam_passwdqc - NO
• pam_pkcs11 - OK
• pam_radius - OK
• pam_smb - NO(!)
• pam_ssh - NO
• privoxy - NO
• procinfo - NO
• psacct - already in main
• radiusclient -NO
• sblim - OK
• sg3-utils should already be in main OK
• siga (or other info collector for support) - NO
• snort - OK
• spamd - NO
• some webmail -defer
• varmon - NO
• vlock - OK
• webalizer (or some sort of web analysis tool) - DUHHH NO

To discuss

• amanda (tape backup) - NO
• bacula - OK
• apcupsd (in universe) NO
• nut - OK
• arpwatch - OK
• amavisd-new - YES
• cyrus (remove libsasl2-3 and switch to Dovecot for primary SASL) TO CHECK
• enscript - ALREADY IN MAIN
• imagemagick - ALREADY IN MAIN
• htdig - NO
• inn (or any nntp daemon like leafnode) - NO
• java toolkits
• javamail
• jdom
• JTOpen
• mx4j
• struts
• xalan/xerces
• Mailing list software (majordomo/mailman/sympa) ? mailman in main
• mod-mono -DEFER
• mono - ALREADY IN MAIN
• logcheck - ALREADY IN MAIN
• mpich - NO
• mrtg - CRICKET in main - NO
• numactl - NO
• openvpn - OK
• libpcre3 - IN MAIN (and on the server cd already....)
• pfmon - NO
• Cluster Admin - Redhat tools already in main
• postgrey - DEFER

To research

• adaptec - TALK TO VENDOR
• drdb - OK
• frysk

• Ganeti - http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ - DEFER to virtualization

• libgd2 - ALREADY IN MAIN

• ibutils (OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools) -??? LOOK INTO IT

• pam_apparmor - OOOOKKKKK
• 3ware - NO (non-free license)

To Consider

This shows our level of innovation and forward thinking.

• Replace traditional sysklogd/syslogd with syslog-ng [http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/] . (Desktop, even?) - DEFER to be seen with platform team

• migrationtools to ldap - OK
• sysstat (iostat utility gives you disk i/o usage similar to top) - OK
• htop (Better top, seriously.) good enough to have it in universe - NO
• aoetools - OK
• backuppc - ALREADY IN MAIN
• rsync (this is already in main?) Default install - IS THERE
• rsnapshot (Default? install?) - OK
• munin - OK
• munin-node - OK
• rubygems (Near necessity for Rails.) Has better major-minor-point pinning support than apt-dpkg with respect to Ruby packages. - DEFER for ruby session

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