I was hoping to try this Ubuntu this week. I'll take a look at that and see if there's anything I can do to help. Mostly looking to install Ubuntu from RHEL system.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Arif Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > You mean > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=UbuntuHowto > > I have been looking at the same scripts and enhancing the support over the > last few days. adding support for genesis, ibmhpc, ipmitool-xcat etc ..., > check the xcat-commit logs > > Also the postinst postrm etc needed revisiting to enable trouble free > installation; once these bugs are sorted, then the following command will > create the repository if you are in the trunk of xcat-core > > ./build-ubunturepo -c . -d ../../xcat-dep/trunk -l /root/ubuntu-repo > > The contents of /root/ubuntu-repo would be able to be uploaded with all > the deb repositories created, each of those directories then can be tarred > for distribution. > > I hope that helps > > -- > Arif Ali > > catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali > > > > On 9 April 2012 21:53, Adalberto Medeiros <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> There are patches committed to xCAT trunk with scripts to build the deb >> packages. >> >> Instructions are here with latest things done end last year, based on >> xCAT 2.6: >> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=HowToUbuntu >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Adalberto Medeiros >> Linux Technology Center - Infrastructure Team Lead >> IBM Brazil >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> On 09-04-2012 17:24, Bruce M Potter wrote: >> >> Arif, >> >> When you've built the xcat-core and xcat-dep pkgs for ubuntu then we can >> work together to get them uploaded to >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/ so people can try it out. >> We should establish both an online repository and downloadable tarballs of >> the deb pkgs. Let me know when you want to work on that. >> >> Bruce Potter STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM, >> Poughkeepsie, NY >> Email: [email protected] Phone: external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL >> 293-7073 >> >> >> [image: Inactive hide details for Arif Ali ---04/09/2012 02:56:42 PM---> >> Excellent. How about documentation? We'll have that once I ha]Arif Ali >> ---04/09/2012 02:56:42 PM---> Excellent. How about documentation? We'll >> have that once I have something stable >> >> From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> <[email protected]><[email protected]> >> Date: 04/09/2012 02:56 PM >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu Support >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> >> > 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]><[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]><[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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