<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>2011/2/17 Lorin Hochstein <<a href="mailto:lorin@isi.edu">lorin@isi.edu</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">For those who deploy on platforms other than Ubuntu, are these<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">customizations recorded somewhere in the OpenStack documentation?<br></blockquote><br>Hmm.. No. I submitted it upstream, applied it in Ubuntu, and uploaded<br>backported packages to the PPA's. I guess we could also add a patches/<br>directory to nova and stick stuff in there. Would that address your<br>concerns?<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I think that should do. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><br><blockquote type="cite">Having access to a comprehensive set of the dependency packages versions for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the reference implementation platform would be very helpful for debugging<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">problems on other platforms. Is it possible automatically pull this info<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from the PPA, extract it from the package metadata, and then add it to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">admin guide docs?<br></blockquote><br>I'd hate to have to update admin docs for this sort of stuff. A<br>general pointer to the (not-yet-existing) patches/ directory would be<br>a good idea, though. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that's fine, something like "Some dependencies contain bugs that prevent nova working correctly. In those cases nova relies on a customized version of the dependency with a bugfix. These bugfixes to dependencies are located in the patches/ directory".</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Take care, </div><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div></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-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-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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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; "><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-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist</div><div>USC Information Sciences Institute<br></div><div>703.812.3710</div><div><a href="http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin">http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>