Bruce, OK, maybe I need to work on creating a repository that is compatible for all distributions across the board. I will get this working in the next few days, and will upload another one soon.
With regards to documentation, yes, I will start updating the relevant one, i.e. UbuntuHowto, and go on from there, and get some sufficient info on there for people to get started. regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 24 April 2012 02:13, Bruce M Potter <[email protected]> wrote: > Arif, > > I created the folder > https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/ubuntu/devel/ in the file mgr > and uploaded the xcat-core ubuntu tarball, and i created > https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/ubuntu/xcat-dep/ and put the > xcat-dep tarball there. > > To create the online repositories, do i just put the unpacked version of > the tarball on sourceforge? I tried making the local repo to test it on my > ubuntu machine, but i'm running oneiric and it looks like maverick is the > only one in the tarball. Can you add oneiric? How can i do it myself? > > Also, i'd like to have the documentation reflect what works and what > doesn't. Should we be working with > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=UbuntuHowto or > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=DebianHowto ? It > seems like the 1st one is more complete, so would be a better > starting point? > > We have a few people that would like to help with the xcat ubuntu effort, > so i'd like to figure out what would be most helpful for them to work on. > Thx. > > > 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 ---04/19/2012 06:42:48 PM---Hi > Bruce, I have them available at the URLs below]Arif Ali ---04/19/2012 > 06:42:48 PM---Hi Bruce, I have them available at the URLs below > > > From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> > Date: 04/19/2012 06:42 PM > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu Support > ------------------------------ > > > > Hi Bruce, > > I have them available at the URLs below > > *http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-core-ubuntu.tar.bz2*<http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-core-ubuntu.tar.bz2> > *http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-dep-ubuntu.tar.bz2*<http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-dep-ubuntu.tar.bz2> > > let me know how you want to proceed. > > I have been able to provision rhels6.2 from these debs; need to do further > testing soon > > regards, > -- > Arif Ali > > catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali > > > > On 9 April 2012 21:24, Bruce M Potter <*[email protected]* <[email protected]>> > 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/*<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]* <[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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