[Openstack-devel] Metapackages and stuff

[Loic Dachary]

On 11/06/2012 04:20 PM, Roland Mas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've spent some time working on the build and installation procedure,
> making sure it's stable and reproducible from scratch.
>
>   I already mentioned earlier a script that installs the proxy node
> non-interactively with some Debconf preseeding, from a "clean" VM
> snapshot ("clean" as in base system with the prerequisites and the
> appropriate configuration for a mini-dinstall repository).  This script
> now installs the openstack-proxy-node, and it leads to a mostly working
> proxy node.  The services are running and the endpoints are registered.
> The dashboard doesn't run right away (for some reason, the WSGI scripts
> die with a segmentation fault until the next reboot or Apache restart),
> and when it does some pages take quite a long time to display (there
> seem to be timeouts getting some information out of some services).
>
>   For a compute node, I wrote a similar script with similar preseeding,
> and added some Debconf and postinst magic to the openstack-compute-node
> metapackage, so that the compute node can also be installed
> non-interactively.  The endpoints are also registered on installation,
> but I'd welcome a review of that part because I'm really doing things in
> the dark (not sure what needs to be registered where).
>
>   I also have a script to build all the packages in pbuilder, to ensure
> that there are no loops or unsatisfiable build-dependencies.
>
>   As for install-time dependencies, the proxy node can almost be
> installed on pure Wheezy (it requires the node-less package, which is
> only in Sid at the moment); for the compute node, the packages required
> from Sid are python-cliff and python-setuptools-git (I have no idea why
> the latter is there).
>
>   A word of caution: the packages seem to install fine, but that doesn't
> mean they actually work :-)  Based on what I can see on IRC, I'm not the
> only one who's more familiar with packaging than with the concepts
> behind Openstack (Thomas, I admire you for trying to tackle the
> networking stack).  Feedback from people used to setting up Openstack by
> hand or using working Openstack clouds would be most welcome.
>
>   But since the packages build and install, and their structure is
> broadly correct, I think it may be time to think about uploading their
> current state to Debian experimental.  Your thoughts?
>
> Roland.
Hi,

This is exciting news ! Just one question : if I was to run the the HOWTO based on http://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto that you modified, would I get a working openstack cluster working the same way it does with Folsom ? Note that it implies deploying nova-network and not quantum ;-)

Cheers