<div dir="ltr">Devstack (<a href="http://devstack.org/">http://devstack.org/</a>) is really the easiest way to setup OpenStack environment. To setup custom repo/branch you should to modify stackrc file following guideline: <a href="http://devstack.org/stackrc.html">http://devstack.org/stackrc.html</a></div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Regards,<br>Ivan Kolodyazhny,<br>Web Developer,<br><a href="http://blog.e0ne.info/" target="_blank">http://blog.e0ne.info/</a>,<div><a href="http://notacash.com/" target="_blank">http://notacash.com/</a>,</div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vishvananda@gmail.com" target="_blank">vishvananda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">you could checkout the stable/essex version of devstack and change the various repository and branch values in localrc to your modified essex. That seems like the easiest approach.<div><br>

</div><div>Vish</div><div><br><div><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 27, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Alex Glikson <<a href="mailto:GLIKSON@il.ibm.com" target="_blank">GLIKSON@il.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite">

<div><div class="h5"><font face="sans-serif">Dear all,</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif">We are developing certain extensions
to OpenStack (patches some of which we are considering to contribute later
on), and we want to deploy them in a 'stable' environment which is currently
based on the Essex-based release of OpenStack coming with Ubuntu 12.04.1.</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif">Is there an easy way to create a development
environment that would be compatible with this particular release (which
is not exactly Essex)? For example, we would like to use the unit-testing
framework, to make sure that our changes do not break other parts of the
code.</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif">Would appreciate any insights/suggestions.</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif">Alex</font>
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