On 26-Sep-2012, at 3:22 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on the Management Server and Hypervisor installation 
> docs lately.
> 
> About everything was focused on RHEL/CentOS and around "install.sh"
> 

I agree, a debian user and fan myself, I want us to focus on debian too.

> There is still a lot of work to do, but I'd want to ask the QA team to 
> test the documentation.
> 
> All my documentation is going into master and I hope this gets cherry 
> picked into the 4.0 branch.
> 
> Take a look at: 
> http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/view/master/job/docs-master/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Apache_CloudStack-4.0-cloudstack-en-US.pdf
> 
> Most of my works has gone into Chapter #2: Installation.
> 
> The big changes:
> * Document the Debian DEB repository
> * No longer use "install.sh" but use Apt
> * Don't let cloud-setup-agent do everything, but document the steps 
> needed to be done (libvirt, firewall, apparmor, selinux)
> * Make the documentation useable on both RHEL and Ubuntu

Also if we can have a rpm repository too, so we have same kind of workflow; yum 
install <pkg-name> and aptitude install <same-pkg-name>
Install.sh can stay as well, for both, in case use has downloaded a tar ball of 
debs or rpms.

> I'll be working on this the whole week, so it will keep changing these days.
> 
> Also, Chip is sending out RC3 tomorrow, so I'll update the packages on 
> the Ubuntu repository to RC3 by then as well.
> 
> Setting up the RPM mirror is something to be done, hopefully this week 
> as well.
> 
> Any comments or thoughts? Hopefully I'm in the good direction!

+1

> 
> Wido

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