On 09/06/2012 09:56 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 02:19 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
Hi all,
Looking at previous CloudStack releases on sourceforge, I see that the
"binary" distributions are tar.gz rpm/deb packages for RHEL and
Ubuntu. I've looked at other Apache projects, and I see that they
usually include the built jar files as their "binary" release
artifacts.
So my question for everyone is, what specifically do you think we
should be distributing as an RC (and eventually as a release)? Do we
want to do a set of the jar files in a tar.gz archive? Do we want to
do RPM and DEV packages? Do we want both?
How useful are a set of .jar packages in a tarball?
Ideally, we can provide something that lets people get set up in as few
steps as possible.
Agreed - I was raising the question, but I don't think it's needed or useful.
If we do the RPM and DEB packages, what OS should we be building on for
each?
At a minimum, the latest RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu LTS.
OK - So should we agree specifically on building on CentOS 6.3 and Ubuntu 12.04?
This was already discussed about a month ago:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-dev/201208.mbox/%3C501A7954.8020604%40widodh.nl%3E
We came to the conclusion:
- Ubuntu 12.04
- CentOS/RHEL 6.2 and 6.3
I still think our binary distribution should be in the form of RPM and
DEB files, that makes life for admins so much easier.
I'll be setting up a Debian/Ubuntu repository soon for at the Debian
packages.
(Long term we need to focus on being included with the distros, but
that's a different discussion.)
These are the platforms we build binaries for, not the platforms it's
only going to work on.
I know these questions might be obvious to some people, but I wanted
to get a clear consensus from the list.
Thanks!
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