On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: > 2011/2/17 Lorin Hochstein <lo...@isi.edu>: >> For those who deploy on platforms other than Ubuntu, are these >> customizations recorded somewhere in the OpenStack documentation? > > Hmm.. No. I submitted it upstream, applied it in Ubuntu, and uploaded > backported packages to the PPA's. I guess we could also add a patches/ > directory to nova and stick stuff in there. Would that address your > concerns? >
Yeah, I think that should do. > > >> Having access to a comprehensive set of the dependency packages versions for >> the reference implementation platform would be very helpful for debugging >> problems on other platforms. Is it possible automatically pull this info >> from the PPA, extract it from the package metadata, and then add it to the >> admin guide docs? > > I'd hate to have to update admin docs for this sort of stuff. A > general pointer to the (not-yet-existing) patches/ directory would be > a good idea, though. I think that's fine, something like "Some dependencies contain bugs that prevent nova working correctly. In those cases nova relies on a customized version of the dependency with a bugfix. These bugfixes to dependencies are located in the patches/ directory". Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist USC Information Sciences Institute 703.812.3710 http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin
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