Hi, for running freesurfer in a cloud environment I want to build *.deb-Packages for freesurfer as installation of packages via puppet is much easier than copying plain file structures.
As my machines are different in their use and I would like to have it modular, I think about dividing the freesurfer suite into several parts: 1) the freesurfer core, containing recon-all and everything inside 2) freesurfer-subjects, containing the demo-subjects as I think they are only necessary for debugging, tests and demonstration (for a cloud machine I could omit these) 3) fs-fast, containing the fsfast additions, as this part is only necessary where Matlab is availlable. 4) fs-tools, as the cloud machines don't have any gui, no real person will log in to them; the gui will be externalized somehow, so these have to be separate as well.
The only dependency I'm sure exists is, that fs-fast depends on fs-core. Are the tools independent? I guess so, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I'm not completely sure about is how this separation is reflected in the package availlable for download from the project website.
Therefore I'd like to get remarks or corrections where my assumptions are wrong:
/ (files in the root directory) legal stuff, setups, so necessary for all parts /average data directory for the calculation, necessary for core /bin fs-core (the binaries) /data fs-core /diffusion fs-core /docs not necessary technically, documentation only /fsafd fs-core? /fsfast fs-fast /lib has to be differentiated: /lib/bem fs-core /lib/cuda fs-core /lib/images tools /lib/KWWidgets tools? /lib/petsc fs-core /lib/qt tools? /lib/resource tools? /lib/tcl tools? /lib/tcltkixblt tools? /lib/vtk tools? /lib/vtk tools? /matlab fs-fast /mni fs-core /subjects fs-subjects (of course) /tktools tools /trctrain ?
I would apprechiate your help, even if incomplete.
regards Peter Wendorff C-Lab, Paderborn