Hi Egan,

> Do you have xCAT running on Ubuntu?

Yes, and when I was working on this in v2.5.2, I had a el5 machine
that was able to provision and ubuntu installation with all the
patches. I also had a dedicated Ubuntu MN at one point for further
development work, which was again able to provision ubuntu

> Do you plan to make xCAT dep packages?

Yes, All the dep packages that are required currently have a
make_deb.sh script in trunk, and those are the main ones required. The
rest of the packages currently in dep are not required in ubuntu, as a
similar package is already available.

Also I have added the debootstrap and dpkg packages into dep for the
purpose of creating stateless ubuntu images for future work; I had
started some initial work on this last time, but I had other things on
my work load, and dropped development. But I am hoping to pinck this
up as well.

Hopefully within the next 2 weeks I will be back to where I was 18
months ago with the current release structure, and will have a el5 and
ubuntu MN that are able to do the same thing again.

regards,
Arif

>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Arif Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Just starting this thread to start discussions going on Ubuntu/Debain
>> support with xCAT.
>>
>> I am picking this up again, and have started submitting all the
>> patches to the repo that were submitted to the spec files to all the
>> debian packaging, and get all the package management working.
>>
>> I am up for ideas on progress that people want in this. My first
>> priority will be to make sure that we can get state-full installs
>> working, with the same method is being applied with 2.7. The first
>> distribution that I will be working on is maverick (Yeah, I know that
>> is old, but that is what I was working on before, and will be a good
>> basis to start from)
>>
>> This will continue, and then start working on stateless provisioning.
>>
>> If people have made patches/updates to work I previously provided,
>> then that would be great.
>>
>> Also if anyone have any ideas on the state of progress, or any
>> suggestions of work then please forward ideas through.
>>
>> If anyone is on IRC in the #xcat channel, I am usually available on
>> there for anyone who wants to contact me really quickly
>>
>> regards,
>> --
>> Arif Ali
>>
>> catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali
>>
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