Excellent.  How about documentation?

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Arif Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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