On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Jörgen Maas wrote: > As a new user (as of today) i can say the following from my personal > experience: > > Welcome - and thanks for pushing the feedback.
> The biggest hurdle (in an enterprise setting) is getting the packages for > your platform.Building packages from source is nice and all, but in my case > i don't have Internet access in the datacenter. So the whole maven stuff is > pretty much a big time burner (there's also a bug somewhere wrt to calling > /usr/bin/mvn when there's only /usr/bin/mvn3 as per the docs). I also had > to downgrade tomcat to work around some bugs where the management service > would just shutdown (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). > > Please file a bug for the tomcat issue. > When the issues surrounding the packages were resolved and the management > service was up and running it was pretty much smooth sailing from there on > (except for the systemvm stuff). > > So from my point of view it would make much more sense to first align the > releases more with the targeted distro's and provide repo's for those > distro's. > > The project officially doesn't release binaries at all - but we have some enterprising contributors who have done just that. Debs for Ubuntu are here: http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu RPMs for EL6 are here: http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.0/ The above site is maintained by Wido den Hollander who is a committer and PMC member for CloudStack.
