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: LUG: Realm Fedora [Was: Realm Ubuntu]
From
: Alexander Ray <alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted]>
Date
: Sun, 31 May 2009 01:02:36 -0400
https://secure.linux.ncsu.edu/moin/Fedora%20RealmKit
OKAY!
Got some semblance of a project page going. I would like to apologize
profusely for my lack of adequate verbage, but thats a wiki right?
Other more smarter people can go in and make it less atrocious.
On a more serious note, this is going to be a project by the community
for the community, so if you have a thought and a second to spare, hop
on over to the site and leave your mark. Request a feature. Add some
explaination at the bottom of the page to a specific goal, or some
references. Call dibs on features. Or even just hit up the Talk page
to say 'hey, I'm interested. count me in'
Thanks
~Alex
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> 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. �Any 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/
>> >
>> >
>>
>
> --
> Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
> Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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