Packaging/RHEL
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Revision as of 18:56, 29 August 2011 by IlyaAlekseyev (talk)
RHEL Packaging
Grid Dynamics provides OpenStack RHEL packages, see NovaInstall/RHEL6Notes for installation details.
All porting work is on GitHub: https://github.com/griddynamics/openstack-rhel
Differences between usual setup and the RHEL build:
- we have packages and dependencies (instead of installing nova manually in `/usr/local/bla` and doing `easy_install` for missing modules)
- qcow2 support was enabled utilizing libguestfs instead of missing NBD
- start-stop-daemon used as daemon management library due removed python-daemon module from Nova
- Nova's logs are located in `/var/log/nova` and properly logrotated
- network injection code was patched for RHEL path (`/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts`) and RHEL template
- all dependencies are located in separate repository.
This packaging work is thanks to the efforts of: