[Planetlab-devel] Re: status

[Mark Huang]

Copying devel.

Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> *) I have a running build env that so far gets everything from your cvs. 
> I dont build myplc-devel at all, no sure that's the right thing to do. 
> The rpm I installed is this from this morning's build 
> myplc-devel-0.5-3.planetlab.2007.01.24
> I still have a few minor issues so I expect it will take a few more days 
> before this can smoothly rebuild the full mounty

Now that myplc-devel doesn't come with a full CVS repository anymore, do you 
think I should alter the host.init (/etc/init.d/plc-devel) script to copy 
/etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot every time?

> *) Anyway this myplc could start federating with something on your side, 
> as soon as you think it's an appropriate time.

We have a test PLC running on guarddog, populated with real data. Well, a 
snapshot of real data, without a bunch of manual fixes that need to go in (slice 
attributes, etc.). If you want to federate with guarddog as a test, let's do it.

> *) I am experiencing the good-old slice-creation issue. More precisely, 
> the slice gets created but somehow the keys dont get installed in  
> authorized_keys. Do you think it's worth me investigating this issue? 
> Looks like David's new nodemanager is not yet online, or is it ?

It should be working...I'll take a look.

> - how should I store any node-specifics extra settings, for e.g. wifi or 
> multi-homing, in the database

I was thinking about the concept of "node attributes" a while ago. Basically, 
just copy the slice_attribute table and rename it node_attribute.

> - figure a way to build and distribute these flavours - that's the easy 
> part I guess; it would seem to mean defining other groups in yumgroups. 
> and also have the ability to manage several kernel configs. As a start, 
> would you agree if I alter the kernel build slightly so that the actual 
> (set of) config(s) can be provided to make on the command-line - or in 
> the <distro>.mk ?

Talk to Marc about it; he's been messing with the kernel build. I really want to 
get away from the whole RPM thing, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.