I would second this. It would be great if you could add a repo to your server and then run (RHEL) yum install cloudstack, or yum upgrade cloudstack.
On Aug 24, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > 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
