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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;">Its great to hear that you got this working. Yum was not working for us after having installed python26, however will give it a try this way. This definitely completes the action item of the meeting.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">However, we are looking for a more friendly solution to the automated deployment process, to the very least trying to avoid a flaky yum (which you mentioned to have observed in this process). Until we all find a cleaner way out, we'r going to work on submitting a minimal necessary patch for review which does not hurt the OpenStack code and community in general.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;">Thanks for your help and time!</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;">-Nikhil</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;"><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: "John Garbutt" <John.Garbutt@citrix.com><br />Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:58am<br />To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br />Cc: "Nikhil Komawar" <nikhil.komawar@rackspace.com><br />Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] swift client for Xen on dom0<br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It seems to have installed OK by following these steps: <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer/PostInstall#Install_Python_2.6_in_Dom0">http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer/PostInstall#Install_Python_2.6_in_Dom0</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;">Regards,<br />Chmouel.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Nikhil Komawar <<a href="mailto:nikhil.komawar@rackspace.com" target="_blank">nikhil.komawar@rackspace.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;">Hi,<br /><br />We have a review patch in Nova <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/17803/" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/17803/</a>, which is making us contemplate on the best possible way to communicate with swift from the dom0. The two options mentioned below have pros and cons:-<br /><br />1. either emulate swift client<br />2. or install python-swiftclient on dom0<br /><br />On trying out both on them, we have realized some pain points involved in deployment and maintenance process. Also, as John has correctly pointed out in the review, we need to keep in mind about having the same code in 2 different places, especially for security fixes.<br /><br />Your opinions and comments would be greatly appreciated and we wish to discuss about this in the XenAPI IRC meeting on Wednesday Jan 23rd as well.<br /><br />thanks,<br />-Nikhil<br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />OpenStack-dev mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br /><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a></p>
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