Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: since today, we have Eucalyptus in the archive, which is a Free clone of the Amazon Web Services for computing and storage. Stefano wants to tag Squeeze as cloud ready, and, frankly, for the very exact moment nobody really knows

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/05/10 at 01:13 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: The bottleneck for the selection of Debian as a cloud OS (at least for the AWS clouds) is the offering of some certified kernel and root images, from which one then jumps into the rest of Squeeze. Amazon restricts that, with Eucalyptus there

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think that enabling users to build their own customized images is more in the spirit of doing things the Debian way, and also has the advantage of not adding more work for any core debian team. I've been told by the

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/05/10 at 11:20 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think that enabling users to build their own customized images is more in the spirit of doing things the Debian way, and also has the advantage of not adding more work for

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [100529 09:29]: I believe this is the most relevant part for -release. AFAIK the pkg-eucalyptus team already has all the software to create on the fly the needed images and kernel/initrds. The point is then which work-flow do you want to synchronize with

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: I'll postpone an email to debian-devel for a week or two until the workload at Eucalyptus allows upstream to join the thread on that more public list. Even after reading this mail I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to do.

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Steffen Möller
On 05/29/2010 11:54 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: * Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [100529 09:29]: I believe this is the most relevant part for -release. AFAIK the pkg-eucalyptus team already has all the software to create on the fly the needed images and kernel/initrds. The point is then

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:29:13PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: This Debian-like self-building is what is happening today and yes, we can continue like that. My mail was just thought as an invitation to think along, not as a request for anything. If the perfect answer is VMbuilder I don't know

Re: transition: proposal libpt2.6.5-libpt2.6.6 libopal3.6.6-libopal3.6.7

2010-05-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, May 12, 2010 12:23, Eugen Dedu wrote: News: - I have fixed all the appropriate upstream bugs - I have tested the branches and they are ok from my point of vue, so they can be packaged to a new release - but before I am looking at the hppa failure - as soon as I fix it, I will contact

Re: Bug#582774: seed FTBFS on ia64

2010-05-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 15:06 +0100, peter green a écrit : Package: seed Version: 2.30.0-1 Severity: serious Seed fails to build on ia64. Unfortunately I don't have access to an ia64 system so I can't debug this myself.

Re: Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure and kernels/initrds

2010-05-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steffen Möller (steffen_moel...@gmx.de) [100529 16:52]: On 05/29/2010 02:18 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: I'll postpone an email to debian-devel for a week or two until the workload at Eucalyptus allows upstream to join the

Re: transition: proposal libpt2.6.5-libpt2.6.6 libopal3.6.6-libopal3.6.7

2010-05-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
On 29/05/10 14:31, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 12:23, Eugen Dedu wrote: News: - I have fixed all the appropriate upstream bugs - I have tested the branches and they are ok from my point of vue, so they can be packaged to a new release - but before I am looking at the hppa

Re: transition: proposal libpt2.6.5-libpt2.6.6 libopal3.6.6-libopal3.6.7

2010-05-29 Thread Mark Purcell
On Saturday 29 May 2010 22:31:28 Adam D. Barratt wrote: Does ekiga require any sourceful changes for the ptlib/opal transition? If not then I'll schedule (yet) another set of binNMUs for ekiga so we can try and get both transitions ready asap. Yes ekiga does currently require a sourceful