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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. >>> Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. >>> Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xCAT-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. >> Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. >> Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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