Re: LUG: REQ: Update on "Realm Ubuntu" - Sat, 30 May 2009 12:33:02 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: REQ: Update on "Realm Ubuntu"

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 30 May 2009 12:33:02 -0400

Alex,

Just ask me for any resources you need and I will see that we get them
for this project.

Also, I /really/ want to have all the yum repos, apt repos, devel repos
in the same place. Which is over here:

/afs/bp/project/realmlinux/yum/CLS/RealmLinux/

Right now there are at least 2 versions of Realm Linux for Fedora 10.
Mostly because no one knows about anyone else's work. ;-)

I will be glad to give whoever we deem the proper access. But I do need
to create separate AFS volumes so let me know please. I have some
devel/scratch space in AFS that we can use as well.

In other notes, I've upgraded my buildsystem to build packages in
current rawhide and the forth coming Fedora 11.

https://secure.linux.ncsu.edu/moin/RealmLinux/CLSPackages

Feel free to use the wiki as well. Anyone with an unity ID can login
and edit.

I'm also using Fedora 11 to do some development for RHEL 6 which I
expect to be released in late fall. (I don't work for RH, IANAL, I have
no knowledge of release schedules, insert disclaimer here.) I want to
implement a configuration management system (Google: bcfg2) which I
think I've talked about before here. I'll have the bcfg2 repository
available (via Git) in the near future once I have a good proof of
concept and I've finished up some work on the openafs packages.

My goals for Realm Linux 6 are something of the like:

* Implement all configuration and package requirements in Bcfg2
* Make bcfg2 work in a distributed, partitioned manner via a
distributed VCS (Git/Hg) and whatever code to automate
* Tear apart RealmConfig
+ Make it configure which bcfg2 repository to use
+ For personal/private/whatever use, make realmconfig clone and setup
a local bcfg2 repository so that the machines owner can have full
access + all of the normal cfg updates if chosen.
+ Figure out what sub-tools need to stay or go and make those
subtools interact with the bcfg2 repo
* Have more maintainers
* Figure out what the OIT Strategic Operations Plan (SOP) for NCSU's
filesystems of choice means to Realm Linux.
* Get LDAP netgroups to work (requires LDAP schema changes) (low
priority)

Jack

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:22:34AM -0400, Alexander Ray wrote:
> Well, right now Dr. Jasper has pretty much wrapped up the Fedora 10
> RealmKit.... which is kinda funny as Fedora 11 ships in 11 days.
>
> This is partially a fault on my part, as I was supposed to go through
> and break it into manageable chunks to give to anyone willing to help
> out.
>
> As i'm going to be busy at least from now til the fedora release, I
> think the plan will be:
> * Port the RealmKit to Fedora 11, and add in the final changes (like
> the greeter)
> * Compile a list of changes from Fedora 11 -> Fedora 11 RealmKit
> * Divide up the list, and start NCSU LUGger's working on them.
>
> I dont forsee any of this being too big, but if we REALLY wanted i bet
> someone could find space to host an SVN for us to work out of. Thats
> only if we want more than one person working on it concurrently, and
> the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is AFS.
>
> All of that being said it would be cool to have a day sometime this
> summer or early fall where a bunch of us could get together and do a
> Day-long or weekend-long development sprint. We could probably get
> the majority of it, if not all of it knocked out in one shot (and its
> more fun with more people).
>
> We could even get food on our funding.... which is another thing I
> have to get to....
>
> ~Alex /goes back to his todo list
>
> PS: if we get it done in for fall appropriations we can request funds
> to make NCSU LUG usb keys that we can preload with these!
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Daniel Underwood
> <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> > A while back, there was discussion about trying to form a
> > realm-linux-like packaging of Ubuntu for NCSU. ï¿½Any news on that front?
> > Just curious.
> > --
> > Daniel Underwood
> > North Carolina State University
> > Graduate Student - Operations Research
> > email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> > phone: XXX.302.3291
> > web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
> >
> >
>

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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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