[atlas-sw-probes] Compiling instructions for building from source

Hi Georg,

The autoconf development is still ongoing, but has seen significant delays, because of staffing.

The current status is that I have a development tree that is able to build RPM, Debian DEB and will build OpenWRT IPKG (both for hardware probes and as a feed to include in your build).

The development tree has seen a lot of refactoring to conform to the Linux FHS, and I’m working with 2 people with the intent of having the software probe available from EPEL and contrib (sorry the official name Debian has for this escaped me for the moment). The intent here is taking the effort of releasing software away from the developers as well as making the installation process easier for users.

Privilege separation will be implemented using 2 users, one handling the communication and the starting / stopping of processes, the other handling the actual execution of measurements. Sudo is being removed as it clutters the logfiles.

The package will be released as a ripe-atlas-common (common functionality for all probe types), ripe-atlas-probe and ripe-atlas-anchor. The last one will only be installed on the request of RIPE NCC as this involves setting up an anchor. This is still under discussion, but is my current view on this.

Because of this restructure the software will need testing and review, which takes a lot of time. I hope you understand.

Dockers or others are something that can be looked at later, at the moment I’m trying to aim for feature parity and lots of testing before releasing this into the wild.

Cheers,

Michel

> On 28 Sep 2023, at 10:19, Georg <g.schlisio at dukun.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michel (and the sw-probe dev team),
> 
> end of last year you mentioned an ongoing refactoring and coming autoconf support:
> 
> 21.12.2022 13:30: Michel Stam:
>> However, we’re refactoring and will soon provide autoconf support for building the package. That should make packaging a lot easier. I expect it to be available with the next release.
> 
> Whats the status of this? Not trying to push or anything, just making sure I didn't miss something here. Also indicating continued interest :)
> 
> Best
> Georg