On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Caleb Call <calebc...@me.com> wrote: > 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 >
I agree - probably multiple repos - one for nightly/frequent builds, one for releases. Worst case scenario we could host this on the planet.cs.o VM that JLK is getting setup. I just queried infra about whether or not there is a preferred place to do this. --David
