On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Soren Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/7/7 Todd Deshane <[email protected]>: >> I'd like to propose adding packaging scripts (a Makefile and a RPM >> spec file) [0] to the nova tree in plugins/xenserver/xenapi to make >> the setup process for Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) OpenStack admins >> simpler (specifically removing the need to have a nova source code >> check to *use* the plugins, like the developers do [1]). > > If these packages are to be distributed through Xen.org anyway, why > does the average openstack admin need to build them? >
The idea was that the build scripts are available in a convenient place is all. The non-Xen OpenStack users wouldn't build them and wouldn't be required to. >> The Kronos audience will not use this RPM, but instead will want >> Debian packages. So at that point, we could either extend the Makefile >> and add Debian packaging information or alternatively we could use the >> OpenStack Ubuntu packagers [4] infrastructure to build and distribute >> the Debian packages containing the XenAPI OpenStack plugins. > > I'd much prefer the latter. (Note: I'm one of the drivers of the > openstack-ubuntu-packagers team) > So Naveed already beat me to the packaging script and they are in fact already in nova trunk. I think going forward packaging should be done outside of the tree, but this RPM is a special use case and directly packages files in the tree (no compilation necessary). This (similar patch) has already been merged: https://code.launchpad.net/~rackspace-titan/nova/xenapi-plugins-rpm >> To summarize the implicit questions: >> >> 1) Is the plan to have the RPM build scripts in the nova tree acceptable? > > My gut feeling is "no". We intentionally kept the Ubuntu/Debian > packaging outside nova proper. It'll never keep up with the actual > packaging anyway and doing packaging is a separate effort from doing > "upstream" development. > > That said, I'd be happy to have the binary RPM be built on our > infrastructure, but I believe the code belongs outside. > What infrastructure are you referring to here? Naveed has a Jenkins build script that he has shared with me that builds an RPM on each successful commit. > -- > Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ > Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ > OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/ > Thanks for the feedback. -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
