[Pkg-puppet-devel] Razor packages in debian?

Thomas Bechtold thomasbechtold at jpberlin.de
Fri Aug 23 04:59:12 UTC 2013


Hi micah,

On 08/17/2013 09:52 PM, micah wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold at jpberlin.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi Stig,
>>
>> On 08/17/2013 11:20 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>>> Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold at jpberlin.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> there's a subproject of puppetlabs on github called Razor[1] which can
>>>> be used to provision bare metal hardware (with pxe/dhcp/tftp).
>>>
>>> Yes, Razor looks like very good stuff. :)
>>>
>>>> Packages from upstream are available[2].
>>>>
>>>> My question is if someone already started to package this software for
>>>> Debian or are there any known problems for packaging (dependencies,
>>>> license,..)? I haven't found a ITP/RFP on bugs.debian.org.
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of any packaging effort, or of any known problems which
>>> prevents packaging.
>>>
>>> As far as I can see, they've released it under the Apache 2.0 license
>>> (https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor/blob/master/LICENSE), so that
>>> should be good as far as DFSG is concerned.
>>>
>>> I haven't looked too closely at the dependencies of Razor.
>>>
>>
>> Great. Then i'll fill a RFP (and maybe start to package it based on the
>> upstream work).
>> What package name do you suggest? Should we go with puppet-razor (as
>> upstream) ?
>> Ang what about the packaging repository? I guess it could be inside of
>> pkg-puppet on alioth? If not I would start on collab-maint. Opinions?
> 
> My understanding from the README on the github page is that there is a
> total re-write of Razor in progress right now, with the aim of finishing
> it by the end of this month.
> 
> That makes me wonder if it might be better to wait to see what happens
> there before spending too much time with the packaging? Not that I want
> to discourage you in any way!

I recognized the new version, too. At my work we use currently the "old"
version so I think I would start packaging with the old one.

> About the packaging repository, I'd say it is up to you - it could fit
> nicely in the pkg-puppet suite and I'm sure everyone would be happy to
> have you, but it might be generic enough and not puppet-specific enough
> that collab-maint could be a good home too. So I guess I'm indifferent
> about what is best, but wanted to let you know that I think it would be
> fine to put it in the pkg-puppet alioth project if you decided it made
> sense.

Can you accept my request to join the pkg-puppet team? Then I would
start to move the packages to alioth.

TIA,

Tom

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