> Excellent. How about documentation? We'll have that once I have something stable
I will need to merge the 2 pieces of documentation already on the wiki (mine, and the IBM teams doc), to something a bit better. Maybe have a rolling update documentation which get's updated with all the fixes being updated like the Wish List on the wiki > > 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. 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