[openstack-dev] [heat] computed package names?

Thomas Spatzier thomas.spatzier at de.ibm.com
Wed Apr 16 09:54:51 UTC 2014


> From: Steven Dake <sdake at redhat.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 16/04/2014 01:43
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] computed package names?
>
> On 04/15/2014 03:45 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
> > On 15/04/14 17:59, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> >> Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote on 04/15/2014 05:17:21 PM:
> >>  > Excerpts from Zane Bitter's message of 2014-04-15 13:32:30 -0700:
> >>  >
> >>  > > FWIW, in the short term I'm not aware of any issue with
installing
> >>  > > mariadb in Fedora 17/18, provided that mysql is not installed
> >> first. And
> >>  > > in fact they're both EOL anyway, so we should probably migrate
> >> all the
> >>  > > templates to Fedora 20 and mariadb.
> >>  >
>
> The last time I tried F17 images, the database installation step failed
> miserably because of problems in the base distribution.
>
> >>  > +1 for that.
> >>
> >> I count 22 templates in heat-templates that are written to support
> >> Fedora, Ubuntu, and RHEL; is MariaDB available in those?  I do not see
> >> it in Ubuntu 12.10, for example.
> >
> > I imagine it's a problem for RHEL (can RHEL 7 just get released
> > already?). Ubuntu is not an issue though, unless they have adopted yum
> > while I was not looking.
> >
> > Checking a random sample, they only includes "yum" and "systemd"
> > sections (no "apt" or "sysvinit") in the metadata, so the purported
> > support for Ubuntu 10.04 is just due to copy-paste and isn't actually
> > implemented.
> >
> > There is, I thought, one template that does actually support Ubuntu.
> > Stuff in the "F17" directory is there for a reason.
> >
> The only rational reason for having the F17 directory is because nobody
> has done the work of porting these templates to F20.  That work needs to
> be done before we can remove the F17 directory permanently :)

+1 on porting existing templates to current distros. And it would be even
better to start using some of the new features like software config.
I have actually started on a WordPress example that uses software config
and should be to post this for review soon.

Regards,
Thomas

>
> Regards,
> -steve
>
> > - ZB
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