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On 16/12/13 03:47, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working over the last 2 months to get Ironic, TripleO and
> Tuskar ready for an upload in Debian. However, for tuskar-ui, I'm facing
> the fact that there's a lack of documentation.
>
> It was easy to get Tuskar packaged. If I understand well, it only needs
> 2 daemons: tuskar-api, and tuskar-manager. Is this right? If not, what
> did I miss? Is tuskar-manager really a daemon? (I have to admit that I
> didn't find yet the time to try, so I would appreciate some guidance here)
>
> As for tuskar-ui, the install.rst is quite vague about how to install. I
> got the python-tuskar-ui binary package done, with egg-info and all,
> that's not the problem. What worries me is this part:
>
> "Go into horizon and create a symlink to the tuskar-ui code:
>
> cd horizon
> ln -s ../tuskar-ui/tuskar_ui
>
> Then, install a virtual environment for your setup:

Add this to debian/links or something?  It sounds like it needs a 
dependency on horizon to make sure that the directory exists.

> python tools/install_venv.py"

This means "turn the list of dependencies in the source package into 
dependencies in the debian package", I would think.

> 3/ The install.rst has:
>
> If everything has gone according to plan, you should be able to run:
>
> tools/with_venv.sh ./manage.py runserver
>
> and have the application start on port 8080. The Tuskar dashboard will
> be located at http://localhost:8080/infrastructure
>
> does this mean that on top of Horizon running through Apache, tuskar-ui
> needs to run independently? Why is that? Can't we just have tuskar-ui
> simply integrated with the rest of Horizon?

Typically (although I haven't looked at tuskar in particular) this can 
also be done as a wsgi service in apache.  That shouldn't be too hard to 
knock up for the debian packages.

Cheers,
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