HI all - I've got a CLI guide ready for review at
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11274/ Thanks for the review. You can either embed comments or patch it yourself as you see fit. I'd like more "how to do specific tasks" sections but so far I only have "how to boot a server." Appreciate the feedback! Thanks, Anne On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Lorin Hochstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Anne Gentle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hm. I documented it with "pip install" in the "Quick Start" and that's how I > have it installed locally. Then, I never remember it's 'yolk -l | grep > "nova"' to find the version. Nuts! Is it pypi that's the "official" > packaging and versioning? Or should we be only documenting what's in a > particular distro? > > > > I must confess I don't understand how the various client packages version > themselves, this is probably something we should ask on the openstack-dev > mailing list. While the client packages do get repackaged by the distros, I > think that the versions on PyPi are also "official" in some sense as well. > > Since the Compute API is versioned and the client is backwards compatible, > it should generally be safe to grab the latest version from PyPi. However, I > don't know what happens if you do "sudo pip install python-novaclient" on, > say, an Ubuntu 12.04 system that already has the Ubuntu-packaged > python-novaclient version installed. Probably not a good idea to do > something like that. > > On the other hand, installing this in a virtualenv is probably safe. > > Take care, > > Lorin > -- > Lorin Hochstein > Lead Architect - Cloud Services > Nimbis Services, Inc. > www.nimbisservices.com > > > > > > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-doc-core Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-doc-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
