On 07/25/2012 08:14 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
How are the other distributions splitting the OpenStack packages ?
Are there benefits in aligning with Ubuntu ?
So I had a look...
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/nova/precise/...
That splits nova into 26 sub packages,
which seems a bit excessive to me and
you don't get the space distribution advantage
at that level of splitting for example.
But the important thing is that there are mid level packages
in ubuntu that align fairly closely, with the Fedora proposed split. I.E.
Ubuntu Fedora
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python-nova python-nova
nova-compute openstack-nova-compute
nova-volume openstack-nova-volume
nova-network openstack-nova-network
nova-cert openstack-nova-cert
nova-objectstore openstack-nova-objectstore
nova-api openstack-nova-api
nova-console openstack-nova-console
The last 2 might not map closely, anyway...
I suppose we could rename the new Fedora nova packages to
remove the "openstack-" prefix to minimize mapping config like:
http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/packages-with-different-name-per-dist...
On the other hand there are always going to be
packaging differences like this, and the
config to handle this is well supported and
can be isolated in one place as shown at the URL above.
For example Fedora's openstack-glance corresponds to "glance" in debian.
Also having an openstack- prefix seems a bit more consistent to me.
For example there is the openstack-dashboard package in ubuntu
rather than just "dashboard".
So I'm leaning towards keeping the proposed package naming/structure,
given that the mapping is easy would need to be done anyway?
cheers,
Pádraig.