<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Hi Christian:</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div><div>On Jun 1, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Christian Parpart wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>I am to write packages (ebuilds) for OpenStack for the Gentoo Linux distribution, </div><div>while still being kind of new to OpenStack myself :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I kind of have an impression on how to gather the software dependencies, now,</div>
<div>but I don't get how people decided on what files to put in what packages,</div><div>namely, speaking of "nova".</div><div>The Ubuntu Distribution is splitting up the nova upstream tarball in lots</div><div>
of tiny pieces, like:</div><div>- nova-common (basic file structure, plus nova-rootwrap),</div><div>- python-nova (library code only?),</div><div>- nova-volume (the volume component, bin-file, rc file, man page, ...)</div>
<div>- nova-scheduler (scheduler component)</div><div>- nova-compute (compute component)</div><div>- etc ...</div><div><br></div><div>However, since upstream (OpenStack devs) have put everything in one big directory,</div>
<div>tarballed all in once, and seeing, that (some) distros provide also so called</div><div>all-in-one "nova" packages, I am now very very disappointed on what way to go,</div><div>what way might be the best (speaking of: what do the developers intend?).</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>I recommend you take this over to the OpenStack mailing list (<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>), you'll get more developer feedback that way.</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would of course really like to see packages per component and library packages for shared code</div><div>and/or file/directory structures.</div><div><br></div><div>The source URI I am building the package(s) from is (for nova) for example:</div>
<div> <a href="http://launchpad.net/nova/essex/nova/+download/nova-2012.1.tar.gz">http://launchpad.net/nova/essex/nova/+download/nova-2012.1.tar.gz</a></div><div><br></div><div>I would now like to now how to decide in what files/directories out of this tarball to put in what package.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly, I am also kind of disappointed by the namingscheme and the way some tools are put</div><div>into the OpenStack git repositories.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, there is a python-keystoneclient repository/project, that contains the client python bindings</div>
<div>to the keystone server *but* also the keystone CLI.</div><div>If I were in charge, I'd split that up into two packages, namely</div><div>- [category: dev-python] python-keystoneclient (python bindings to keystone)</div>
<div>- [category: sys-cluster] keystone (keystone CLI, depending on the package above)</div><div><br></div><div>I'd favor this one, but I want to request for comments, before I'll get killed afterwards, if you know what I mean ;-)</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Note that there's a new project (python-openstackclient) to create a unified CLI across all OpenStack services. The client python bindings will remain in their existing repositories (python-novaclient, python-keystoneclient, etc.). </div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Third, what component is using nova-rootwrap, despite nova-volume of course.</div><div>I'd like to nail this down to the component that is actually using it, or even provide a seperate package for it.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe it's used by nova-compute and nova-network as well.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein</div><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="https://www.nimbisservices.com/">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>