Hi,
While working on the documentation I'm figured it would be nice if we
would have a RPM / DEB repository.
The CloudStack packages depend on a lot of external packages and if
admins would install using yum or apt these dependencies would be
resolved automatically.
For example:
$ echo "deb http://dl.cloudstack.org/debian 4.0" >
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cs.list
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install cloud-agent
This is a Ubuntu example, but the same goes for RHEL.
We would however need to host binary packages, are we allowed to do so
on the ASF infra?
Otherwise I'm volunteering to provide space for this mirror.
It would really simplify a lot of things if we could have such a
repository instead of having admins download all the seperate RPM or DEB
packages manually.
I'm trying to get rid of:
$ tar xzf cloudstack-4.0.tar.gz
$ cd cloudstack-4.0
$ ./install.sh
Such install scripts do all kinds of "black magic" which the admin knows
nothing about. I'm documenting all the steps an admin has to take to
prepare, install and configure the management server and agent on RHEL
(CentOS) or Ubuntu.
Do you guys see a benefit in this idea?
A couple of steps to be taken if we want this:
* Space (Again, offering!)
* Builds need to be uploaded, these have to be tested very well!
* Signing of the builds, who does that?
Suggestions or comments?
Wido
