Search Results: "zigo"

24 September 2023

Thomas Goirand: Searching for a Ryzen 9, 16 cores, small laptop

The new 7945HX CPU from AMD is currently the most powerful. I d love to have one of them, to replace the now aging 6 core Xeon that I ve been using for more than 5 years. So, I ve been searching for a laptop with that CPU. Absolutely all of the laptops I found with this CPU also embed a very powerful RTX 40 0 series GPU, that I have no use: I don t play games, and I don t do AI. I just want something that builds Debian packages fast (like Ceph, that takes more than 1h to build for me ). The more cores I get, the faster all OpenStack unit tests are running too (stestr does a moderately good job at spreading the tests to all cores). That d be ok if I had to pay more for a GPU that I don t need, and I would have deal with the annoyance of the NVidia driver, if only I could find something with a correct size. But I can only find 16 or bigger laptops, that wont fit in my scooter back case (most of the time, these laptops have an 17 inch screen: that s a way too big). Currently, I found: If one of the readers of this post find a smaller laptop with a 7945HX CPU, please let me know! Even better if I can get rid of the expensive NVidia GPU.

16 July 2022

Thomas Goirand: My work during debcamp

I arrived in Prizren late on Wednesday. Here s what I did during debcamp (so over 3 days). I hope this post just motivates others to contribute more to Debian. At least 2 DDs want to upload packages that need a new version of python3-jsonschema (ie: version > 4.x). Unfortunately, version 4 broke a few packages. I therefore uploaded it to Experimental a few months/week, so I could see the result of autopkgtest reading the pseudo excuse page. And it showed a few packages broke. Here s the one used (or part of) OpenStack: Thanks to a reactive upstream, I was able to fix the first 4 above, but not Sahara yet. Vitrage poped-up when I uploade Debian release 2 of jsonschema, surprisingly. Also python3-jsonschema autopkgtest itself was broken because missing python3-pip in depends, but that should be fixed also.
I then filed bugs for packages not under my control: It looks tlike now there s also spyder which wasn t in the list a few hours ago. Maybe I should also file a bug against it. At this point, I don t think the python-jsonschema transition is finished, but it s on good tracks.
Then I also uploaded a new package of Ceph removing the ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local because it depended on python3-sklearn that the release team wanted to remove. I also prepared a point release update for it, but I m currently waiting for the previous upload to migrate to testing before uploading the point release.

Last, I wrote the missing update command for extrepo, and pushed the merge request to Salsa. Now extrepo should be feature complete (at least from my point of view). I also merged the patch for numberstation fixing the debian/copyright, and uploaded it to the NEW queue. It s a new package that does 2 factor authentication, and is mobile friendly: it works perfectly on any Mobian powered phone. Next, I intend to work with Arthur on the Cloud image finder. I hope we can find the time to work on it so it does what I need (ie: support the kind of setup I want to do, with HA, puppet, etc.).

6 October 2021

Thomas Goirand: OpenStack Xena, the 24th OpenStack release, is out

It was out at 3pm, and I managed to finish uploading the last bits to Unstable at 9pm Of course, that s because all of the packaging and testing work was done before the release date. All of it is, as usual, also available through a Bullseye non-official backports repository that can be added using extrepo (ie: extrepo enable openstack_xena ).

Thomas Goirand: Infomaniak launches its public IaaS cloud with ground breaking prices

My employer, the biggest Swiss server hosting company, Infomaniak, has just opened registration for its new IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) OpenStack-based public cloud. Well, in fact, it s been opened since a week or so. Previously, it was only in beta (during that beta period, we hosted (for free) the whole Debconf 21 infrastructure). Nothing really new in the market, except that it is by far cheaper than most (if not all) of its (OpenStack-based or not) competitors, including AWS, GCE or Azure. Also, everything is hosted in Switzerland, in our own data centers, where data protection is written in the law (and Infomaniak often advertises about data privacy: this is real here ). Not only Infomaniak is (by far ) the cheapest offer in the market (including a 300 CHF free tier: enough for our smallest VM for a full year), but we also have very good technical support, and the hardware we used is top notch: Some of our customers didn t even believe how we could do such pricing. Well, the reason is simple: most of our competitors are simply really overpriced, and are making too much money. Since we re late in the market, and that newer hardware (with many cores on a single server) makes is possible to increase density without too much over-commit, my bosses decided that since we could, we would be the cheapest! Hopefully, this will work as a good business strategy. All of that public cloud infrastructure has been setup with OpenStack Cluster Installer for which I m the main author, and that is fully in Debian. All of this is running on a plain, unmodified Debian Bullseye (well, with a few OpenStack packages a little bit more up-to-date, but really not much, and all of that is publicly available ). Last, choosing the cheapest and best offer is also a good action: it promotes OpenStack and cloud computing in Debian, which I believe is the least vendor locked-in IaaS solution.

30 August 2021

Thomas Goirand: developers-reference needs love

During Debconf, Holger, who s one of the developers-reference maintainers, made a quick presentation that was explaining the developers-reference needs some love. Indeed, it has gathered dust, and some useful refresh would be very welcome. Holger pointed at the list of bugs:
https://bugs.debian.org/src:developers-reference After having a quick look into that list, after Holger s Debconf presentation, I wrote to him on IRC: <zigo> Many of the bugs you refered are indeed easily actionable, if all of us just try to help for one bug, that d be a huge improvement of that doc. Then, as I was waiting for the closing ceremony of Debconf, I thought I shouldn t just say it, but actually do something about it. I decided to address https://bugs.debian.org/793633 as I thought it was easy. In just a few minutes, I was able to do a first patch, as seen here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference/-/merge_requests/27 I wrote about it on IRC, and a few people helped with rephrasing what was there (thanks to Fil for correcting my English mistakes, and others for the content). Today, which is 2 days after the MR was opened, I have decided it was long enough and actually merged it, as I considered it was enough time to gather comments. So we now have a brand new shiny chapter about Backports and how to handle them. I m sure that new part is perfectible, so do not hesitate, and do patch what I just wrote if you feel like you can do better. If I m writing this blog post, this is not to promote myself. The goal is to promote the developers-reference manual and push others in Debian to do the same. Please do what Holger suggested, and what I just did: contribute to the document by addressing just one of the currently opened bugs. If all DDs do it, we ll get a much nicer document, and help others to contribute to Debian. This is going to take less than 30 minutes of your time, and it is very much ok if you do this only once. It is really easy: just clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference/ and write a patch. If you re a DD, you can even merge your patch yourself once you re satisfied with it.

23 April 2021

Thomas Goirand: Puppet and OS detection

As you may know, Puppet uses facter to get facts about the machine it is about to configure. That s fine, and a nice concept. One can later use variables in a puppet manifest to do different things depending on what facter tells. For example, the operating system name oh no! This thing is really stupid Here s the code one has to do to be compatible with puppet from version 3 up to 5: if $::lsbdistcodename == undef
# This works around differences between facter versions
if $facts['os']['lsb'] != undef
$distro_codename = $facts['os']['lsb']['distcodename']
else
$distro_codename = $facts['os']['distro']['codename']

else
$distro_codename = downcase($::lsbdistcodename)
Indeed, the global variable $::lsbdistcodename still existed up to Stretch (and is gone in Buster). The global $::facts wasn t an array before (but a hash), so in Jessie, it breaks with the error message facts is not a hash or array when accessing it with os . So, one need the full code above to make this work. It s ok to improve things. It is NOT OK to break os detection. To me it is a very bad practice from upstream Puppet authors. I m publishing this in the hope to avoid others to fall in the same trap as I did.

1 January 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2020

Here s my (fifteenth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 24th month of contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March last year and a DD last Christmas! \o/ Amongs a lot of things, this was month was crazy, hectic, adventerous, and the last of 2020 more on some parts later this month.
I finally finished my 7th semester (FTW!) and moved onto my last one! That said, I had been busy with other things but still did a bunch of Debian stuff Here are the following things I did this month:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Attended the Debian Ruby team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • FTP Trainee reviewing.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.
  • Sponsored golang-github-gorilla-css for Fedrico.

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my fifteenth month as a Debian LTS and sixth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 26.00 hours for LTS and 38.25 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued DLA 2474-1, fixing CVE-2020-28928, for musl.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.16-3+deb9u1.
  • Issued DLA 2481-1, fixing CVE-2020-25709 and CVE-2020-25710, for openldap.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u6.
  • Issued DLA 2484-1, fixing #969126, for python-certbot.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.28.0-1~deb9u3.
  • Issued DLA 2487-1, fixing CVE-2020-27350, for apt.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.11. The update was prepared by the maintainer, Julian.
  • Issued DLA 2488-1, fixing CVE-2020-27351, for python-apt.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.2. The update was prepared by the maintainer, Julian.
  • Issued DLA 2495-1, fixing CVE-2020-17527, for tomcat8.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 8.5.54-0+deb9u5.
  • Issued DLA 2488-2, for python-apt.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.3. The update was prepared by the maintainer, Julian.
  • Issued DLA 2508-1, fixing CVE-2020-35730, for roundcube.
    For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.3+dfsg.1-4+deb9u8. The update was prepared by the maintainer, Guilhem.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 21-12 until 27-12 and from 28-12 until 03-01 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged openldap, python-certbot, lemonldap-ng, qemu, gdm3, open-iscsi, gobby, jackson-databind, wavpack, cairo, nsd, tomcat8, and bountycastle.
  • Marked CVE-2020-17527/tomcat8 as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-28052/bountycastle as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-14394/qemu as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-35738/wavpack as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-3550 3-6 /qemu as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-3550 3-6 /qemu as postponed for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-16093/lemonldap-ng as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27837/gdm3 as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020- 13987, 13988, 17437 /open-iscsi as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-35450/gobby as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-35728/jackson-databind as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-28935/nsd as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Auto EOL ed libpam-tacplus, open-iscsi, wireshark, gdm3, golang-go.crypto, jackson-databind, spotweb, python-autobahn, asterisk, nsd, ruby-nokogiri, linux, and motion for jessie.
  • General discussion on LTS private and public mailing list.

Other $things! \o/

Bugs and Patches Well, I did report some bugs and issues and also sent some patches:
  • Issue #44 for github-activity-readme, asking for a feature request to set custom committer s email address.
  • Issue #711 for git2go, reporting build failure for the library.
  • PR #89 for rubocop-rails_config, bumping RuboCop::Packaging to v0.5.
  • Issue #36 for rubocop-packaging, asking to try out mutant :)
  • PR #212 for cucumber-ruby-core, bumping RuboCop::Packaging to v0.5.
  • PR #213 for cucumber-ruby-core, enabling RuboCop::Packaging.
  • Issue #19 for behance, asking to relax constraints on faraday and faraday_middleware.
  • PR #37 for rubocop-packaging, enabling tests against ruby3.0! \o/
  • PR #489 for cucumber-rails, bumping RuboCop::Packaging to v0.5.
  • Issue #362 for nheko, reporting a crash when opening the application.
  • PR #1282 for paper_trail, adding RuboCop::Packaging amongst other used extensions.
  • Bug #978640 for nheko Debian package, reporting a crash, as a result of libfmt7 regression.

Misc and Fun Besides squashing bugs and submitting patches, I did some other things as well!
  • Participated in my first Advent of Code event! :)
    Whilst it was indeed fun, I didn t really complete it. No reason, really. But I ll definitely come back stronger next year, heh! :)
    All the solutions thus far could be found here.
  • Did a couple of reviews for some PRs and triaged some bugs here and there, meh.
  • Also did some cloud debugging, not so fun if you ask me, but cool enough to make me want to do it again! ^_^
  • Worked along with pollo, zigo, ehashman, rlb, et al for puppet and puppetserver in Debian. OMG, they re so lovely! <3
  • Ordered some interesting books to read January onward. New year resolution? Meh, not really. Or maybe. But nah.
  • Also did some interesting stuff this month but can t really talk about it now. Hopefully sooooon.

Until next time.
:wq for today.

14 October 2020

Thomas Goirand: The Gnocchi package in Debian

This is a follow-up from the blog post of Russel as seen here: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/10/13/first-try-gnocchi-statsd/. There s a bunch of things he wrote which I unfortunately must say is inaccurate, and sometimes even completely wrong. It is my point of view that none of the reported bugs are helpful for anyone that understand Gnocchi and how to set it up. It s however a terrible experience that Russell had, and I do understand why (and why it s not his fault). I m very much open on how to fix this on the packaging level, though some things aren t IMO fixable. Here s the details. 1/ The daemon startups First of all, the most surprising thing is when Russell claimed that there s no startup scripts for the Gnocchi daemons. In fact, they all come with both systemd and sysv-rc support: # ls /lib/systemd/system/gnocchi-api.service
/lib/systemd/system/gnocchi-api.service
# /etc/init.d/gnocchi-api
/etc/init.d/gnocchi-api Russell then tried to start gnocchi-api without the good options that are set in the Debian scripts, and not surprisingly, this failed. Russell attempted to do what was in the upstream doc, which isn t adapted to what we have in Debian (the upstream doc is probably completely outdated, as Gnocchi is unfortunately not very well maintained upstream). The bug #972087 is therefore, IMO not valid. 2/ The database setup By default for all things OpenStack in Debian, there are some debconf helpers using dbconfig-common to help users setup database for their services. This is clearly for beginners, but that doesn t prevent from attempting to understand what you re doing. That is, more specifically for Gnocchi, there are 2 databases: one for Gnocchi itself, and one for the indexer, which not necessarily is using the same backend. The Debian package already setups one database, but one has to do it manually for the indexer one. I m sorry this isn t well enough documented. Now, if some package are supporting sqlite as a backend (since most things in OpenStack are using SQLAlchemy), it looks like Gnocchi doesn t right now. This is IMO a bug upstream, rather than a bug in the package. However, I don t think the Debian packages are to be blame here, as they simply offer a unified interface, and it s up to the users to know what they are doing. SQLite is anyway not a production ready backend. I m not sure if I should close #971996 without any action, or just try to disable the SQLite backend option of this package because it may be confusing. 3/ The metrics UUID Russell then thinks the UUID should be set by default. This is probably right in a single server setup, however, this wouldn t work setting-up a cluster, which is probably what most Gnocchi users will do. In this type of environment, the metrics UUID must be the same on the 3 servers, and setting-up a random (and therefore different) UUID on the 3 servers wouldn t work. So I m also tempted to just close #972092 without any action on my side. 4/ The coordination URL Since Gnocchi is supposed to be setup with more than one server, as in OpenStack, having an HA setup is very common, then a backend for the coordination (ie: sharing the workload) must be set. This is done by setting an URL that tooz understand. The best coordinator being Zookeeper, something like this should be set by hand: coordination_url=zookeeper://192.168.101.2:2181/ Here again, I don t think the Debian package is to be blamed for not providing the automation. I would however accept contributions to fix this and provide the choice using debconf, however, users would still need to understand what s going on, and setup something like Zookeeper (or redis, memcache, or any other backend supported by tooz) to act as coordinator. 5/ The Debconf interface cannot replace a good documentation and there s not so much I can do at my package maintainer level for this. Russell, I m really sorry for the bad user experience you had with Gnocchi. Now that you know a little big more about it, maybe you can have another go? Sure, the OpenStack telemetry system isn t an easy to understand beast, but it s IMO worth trying. And the recent versions can scale horizontally

29 May 2020

Thomas Goirand: A quick look into Storcli packaging horror

So, Megacli is to be replaced by Storcli, both being proprietary tools for configuring RAID cards from LSI. So I went to download what s provided by Lenovo, available here:
https://support.lenovo.com/fr/en/downloads/ds041827 It s very annoying, because they force users to download a .zip file containing a deb file, instead of providing a Debian repository. Well, ok, though at least there s a deb file there. Let s have a look what s using my favorite tool before installing (ie: let s run Lintian).
Then it s a horror story. Not only there s obvious packaging wrong, like the package provide stuff in /opt, and all is statically linked and provide embedded copies of libm and ncurses, or even the package is marked arch: all instead of arch: amd64 (in fact, the package contains both i386 and amd64 arch files ), but there s also some really wrong things going on:
E: storcli: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli
E: storcli: embedded-library opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli: libm
E: storcli: embedded-library opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli: ncurses
E: storcli: statically-linked-binary opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli
E: storcli: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64
E: storcli: embedded-library opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64: libm
E: storcli: embedded-library use no-tag-display-limit to see all (or pipe to a file/program)
E: storcli: statically-linked-binary opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64
E: storcli: changelog-file-missing-in-native-package
E: storcli: control-file-has-bad-permissions postinst 0775 != 0755
E: storcli: control-file-has-bad-owner postinst asif/asif != root/root
E: storcli: control-file-has-bad-permissions preinst 0775 != 0755
E: storcli: control-file-has-bad-owner preinst asif/asif != root/root
E: storcli: no-copyright-file
E: storcli: extended-description-is-empty
W: storcli: essential-no-not-needed
W: storcli: unknown-section storcli
E: storcli: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version depends: bash
E: storcli: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid opt/ 1000/1000
W: storcli: non-standard-dir-perm opt/ 0775 != 0755
E: storcli: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid opt/MegaRAID/ 1000/1000
E: storcli: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/MegaRAID/
W: storcli: non-standard-dir-perm opt/MegaRAID/ 0775 != 0755
E: storcli: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid opt/MegaRAID/storcli/ 1000/1000
E: storcli: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/MegaRAID/storcli/
W: storcli: non-standard-dir-perm opt/MegaRAID/storcli/ 0775 != 0755
E: storcli: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid use no-tag-display-limit to see all (or pipe to a file/program)
E: storcli: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli
E: storcli: dir-or-file-in-opt use no-tag-display-limit to see all (or pipe to a file/program) Some of the above are grave security problems, like wrong Unix mode for folders, even with the preinst script installed as non-root.
I always wonder why this type of tool needs to be proprietary. They clearly don t know how to get packaging right, so they d better just provide the source code, and let us (the Debian community) do the work for them. I don t think there s any secret that they are keeping by hiding how to configure the cards, so it s not in the vendor s interest to keep everything closed. Or maybe they are just hiding really bad code in there, that they are ashamed to share? In any way, they d better not provide any package than this pile of dirt (and I m trying to stay polite here ).

16 October 2016

Thomas Goirand: Released OpenStack Newton, Moving OpenStack packages to upstream Gerrit CI/CD

OpenStack Newton is released, and uploaded to Sid OpenStack Newton was released on the Thursday 6th of October. I was able to upload nearly all of it before the week-end, though there was a bit of hick-ups still, as I forgot to upload python-fixtures 3.0.0 to unstable, and only realized it thanks to some bug reports. As this is a build time dependency, it didn t disrupt Sid users too much, but 38 packages wouldn t build without it. Thanks to Santiago Vila for pointing at the issue here. As of writing, a lot of the Newton packages didn t migrate to Testing yet. It s been migrating in a very messy way. I d love to improve this process, but I m not sure how, if not filling RC bugs against 250 packages (which would be painful to do), so they would migrate at once. Suggestions welcome. Bye bye Jenkins For a few years, I was using Jenkins, together with a post-receive hook to build Debian Stable backports of OpenStack packages. Though nearly a year and a half ago, we had that project to build the packages within the OpenStack infrastructure, and use the CI/CD like OpenStack upstream was doing. This is done, and Jenkins is gone, as of OpenStack Newton. Current status As of August, almost all of the packages Git repositories were uploaded to OpenStack Gerrit, and the build now happens in OpenStack infrastructure. We ve been able to build all packages a release OpenStack Newton Debian packages using this system. This non-official jessie backports repository has also been validated using Tempest. Goodies from Gerrit and upstream CI/CD It is very nice to have it built this way, so we will be able to maintain a full CI/CD in upstream infrastructure using Newton for the life of Stretch, which means we will have the tools to test security patches virtually forever. Another thing is that now, anyone can propose packaging patches without the need for an Alioth account, by sending a patch for review through Gerrit. It is our hope that this will increase the likeliness of external contribution, for example from 3rd party plugins vendors (ie: networking driver vendors, for example), or upstream contributors themselves. They are already used to Gerrit, and they all expected the packaging to work this way. They are all very much welcome. The upstream infra: nodepool, zuul and friends
The OpenStack infrastructure has been described already in planet.debian.org, by Ian Wienand. So I wont describe it again, he did a better job than I ever would. How it works All source packages are stored in Gerrit with the deb- prefix. This is in order to avoid conflict with upstream code, and to easily locate packaging repositories. For example, you ll find Nova packaging under https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/deb-nova. Two Debian repositories are stored in the infrastructure AFS (Andrew File System, which means a copy of that repository exist on each cloud were we have compute resources): one for the actual deb-* builds, under jessie-newton , and one for the automatic backports, maintained in the deb-auto-backports gerrit repository. We re using a git tag based workflow. Every Gerrit repository contains all of the upstream branch, plus a debian/newton branch, which contains the same content as a tag of upstream, plus the debian folder. The orig tarball is generated using git archive , then used by sbuild to produce binaries. To package a new upstream release, one simply needs to git merge -X theirs FOO (where FOO is the tag you want to merge), then edit debian/changelog so that the Debian package version matches the tag, then do git commit -a amend , and simply git review . At this point, the OpenStack CI will build the package. If it builds correctly, then a core reviewer can approve the merge commit , the patch is merged, then the package is built and the binary package published on the OpenStack Debian package repository. Maintaining backports automatically The automatic backports is maintained through a Gerrit repository called deb-auto-backports containing a packages-list file that simply lists source packages we need to backport. On each new CR (change request) in Gerrit, thanks to some madison-lite and dpkg compare-version magic, the packages-list is used to compare what s in the Debian archive and what we have in the jessie-newton-backports repository. If the version is lower in our repository, or if the package doesn t exist, then a build is triggered. There is the possibility to backport from any Debian release (using the -d flag in the packages-list file), and even we can use jessie-backports to just rebuild the package. I also had to write a hack to just download from jessie-backports without rebuilding, because rebuilding the webkit2gtk package (needed by sphinx) was taking too resources (though we ll try to never use it, and rebuild packages when possible). The nice thing with this system, is that we don t need to care much about maintaining packages up-to-date: the script does that for us. Upstream Debian repository are NOT for production The produced package repositories are there because we have interconnected build dependencies, needed to run unit test at build time. It is the only reason why such Debian repository exist. They are not for production use. If you wish to deploy OpenStack, we very much recommend using packages from distributions (like Debian or Ubuntu). Indeed, the infrastructure Debian repositories are updated multiple times daily. As a result, it is very likely that you will experience failures to download (hash or file size mismatch and such). Also, the functional tests aren t yet wired in the CI/CD in OpenStack infra, and therefore, we cannot guarantee yet that the packages are usable. Improving the build infrastructure There s a bunch of things which we could do to improve the build process. Let me give a list of things we want to do. Generalizing to Debian During Debconf 16, I had very interesting talks with the DSA (Debian System Administrator) about deploying such a CI/CD for the whole of the Debian archive, interfacing Gerrit with something like dgit and a build CI. I was told that I should provide a proof of concept first, which I very much agreed with. Such a PoC is there now, within OpenStack infra. I very much welcome any Debian contributor to try it, through a packaging patch. If you wish to do so, you should read how to contribute to OpenStack here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#If_you.27re_a_developer and then simply send your patch with git review . This system, however, currently only fits the git tag based packaging workflow. We d have to do a little bit more work to make it possible to use pristine-tar (basically, allow to push in the upstream and pristine-tar branches without any CI job connected to the push). Dear DSA team, as we now nice PoC that is working well, on which the OpenStack PKG team is maintaining 100s of packages, shall we try to generalize and provide such infrastructure for every packaging team and DDs?

11 April 2016

Thomas Goirand: Announcing validated Debian packages for Mitaka

Greetings! This is a (4 days delay) copy of the announce I made on the openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org on the 8th of April 2016. I am overjoyed, thrilled and delighted to announce the release of the Debian packages for Mitaka. All of the DefCore packages were validated successfully this morning through our package-only-based Tempest CI. Content of this release
This release includes the following 23 services:
aodh 2.0.0
barbican 2.0.0
ceilometer 6.0.0
cinder 8.0.0
congress 3.0.0+dfsg1
designate 2.0.0
glance 12.0.0
gnocchi 2.0.2
heat 6.0.0
horizon 9.0.0
ironic 5.1.0
keystone 9.0.0
magnum 2.0.0
manila 2.0.0
mistral 2.0.0
murano 2.0.0
neutron 8.0.0
nova 13.0.0
trove 5.0.0
sahara 4.0.0
senlin 1.0.0
swift 2.7.0
zaqar 2.0.0 Where to find these packages
1/ Sid
All of Mitaka was uploaded to Debian Sid this week. You can use Debian Sid directly to use them. 2/ Official jessie-backports
As soon as everything migrates to Debian Testing (currently aka: Stretch), in 5 days if no RC bug is reported, it will be possible to upload all of Mitaka to the Debian official jessie-backports. 3/ Non-official Jessie and Trusty backports
In the meantime, the packages are available through Mirantis Jenkins automatic Debian Jessie backport repository. The full sources.list is available here: http://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/ You can use the Trusty backports as well: http://mitaka-trusty.pkgs.mirantis.com/ To use these repositories, simply add the described sources.list to (for example) /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openstack.list, and run apt-get update. If you want to install the GPG key of the repositories, you can either install the mitaka-jessie-archive-keyring or mitaka-trusty-archive-keyring package (depending on your distribution of choice). Alternatively apt-key add the public key available at /debian/dists/pukey.gpg in these repositories. As a reminder, the URLs above contain the word Mirantis only because the service is sponsored by my employer. These repositories are straight backports from what is available in Debian Sid, without any modification. Remember that the packages listed below are maintained separately in Debian and Ubuntu, and therefore, packages are different in these distributions:
aodh, barbican, ceilometer, cinder, designate, glance, heat, horizon, ironic, keystone, manila, neutron, nova, trove, swift. All other packages (including all OpenStack libraries like Oslo and python-*clients) are maintained in Debian, with the contribution of Canonical, and then synced to Ubuntu, so they are the exact same packages (or at least, with a minimal difference). I hope we can further improve collaboration between Debian and Canonical during the Newton cycle. Bug reporting
As always, bug reports are welcome, and considered as high value contributions. Please follow the instructions available at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting to report bugs to the Debian BTS. Moving forward with higher QA and the Packaging-deb project in Newton
Currently, DefCore packages are tested through a package-only (ie: no puppet, chef, you-name-it system management involved) Tempest CI. Results can be seen at:
https://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/job/openstack-tempest-ci/ Though not all packages are included in this CI. It is my intention, during the Newton cycle, to also include services like Designate, Trove, Barbican, Congress, in this CI. Individual upstream team for these services are more than welcome to approach us to get this happen quicker. Also, as we re slowing starting to get the Packaging-Deb project (ie: packaging using upstream OpenStack gerrit and gating), it is also in the pipe to use the above mentioned tempest CI system as a gate system for the packaging. Hopefully, this will lead us to a full CI/CD working from trunk. We also hope to be able to use these packages to help the Puppet team to test packaged OpenStack from trunk. Greetings
On each release, I ask myself who I should thank. This time, I would like to thank everyone, because this release was overall very nice and working well. The whole OpenStack community is always very helpful and understand the requirements of downstream distributions. Guys, you re awesome, I love my work, and I love working with you all! Cheers,

3 February 2016

Thomas Goirand: Moby

Just a quick reply to Rhonda about Moby. You can t introduce him without telling about Go, which is the title who made him famous, very early in the age of electronic music (November 1990, according to wikipedia). Many attempted to remix this song (and Moby himself), but nothing s as good as the original version.

16 December 2015

Thomas Goirand: Django upgrades area always a pain

It s been a few years that I maintain some python-django-* packages, as part of the maintenance of the OpenStack dashboard, Horizon. Currently, this consist of: python-django-appconf, python-django-babel, python-django-bootstrap-form, python-django-compressor, python-django-discover-runner, python-django-formtools, python-django-openstack-auth, python-django-overextends, python-django-pyscss. By far, Django has been one of the biggest pain point. It moves too fast, deprecating its own API from one minor version to the next, at the rate of one minor release every 6 months. As Django 1.9 was uploaded to Sid, a bunch of problems appeared. The Django 1.9 release notes explains it all: a large chunk of its API gets removed (look for Freatures removed in that page). I had to fix a few issues: the last one I fixed was #807346 (in django-openstack-auth), which needed 2 patches. Amusingly, the patch I wrote looks the same as what is currently under review, by one of the upstream authors. Though still have #807355 to fix, and that one is more complex. To fix it, I have to package the latest commit of django-compressor, and: Even after doing all of this, django-compressor still doesn t build (unit test failures) with lots of errors ending with this: File some-path/build-area/python-django-compressor-1.6+2015.12.15.git.66feba0db5/compressor/management/commands/compress.py , line 162, in compress
followlinks=options.get( followlinks , False)):
File /usr/lib/python2.7/os.py , line 278, in walk
names = listdir(top)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, Origin found I tried fixing this last one, but failed so far. (if anyone can help, please do ) This was just the upgrade from 1.8 to 1.9, and it doesn t include some of the issues fixed earlier (when Django 1.9 was only in Experimental and easy fixes were written). All this to say: Django upgrades are always painful. As I always say: the Linux kernel is so much more complex than this kind of Python modules, and yet, they don t allow themselves break the userland API. Why most Python developers believe that it s OK to do so? It isn t possible to separate private and public API clearly in python (like it is with the kernel). So it isn t uncommon that library users start using non-public functions, classes or methods. For that, it is understandable that there are breakages (when someone uses something that isn t made to be used by the library users). But that s the only case where it is, and there s no excuse to break known used public API. Django upstream authors, if you read me, please stop breaking the world every 6 months! And no, your deprecation messages are not an excuse. If you did a design mistake in the past, that s no excuse. Too bad you ll have to live with it until the end of times and find a work-around.

15 December 2015

Thomas Goirand: OpenStack: Mitaka beta 1 packages available, Liberty uploaded to Jessie Backports

OpenStack Mitaka beta 1 Debian packages available I didn t find the time to announce it until today, though I have finished last Friday to package Mitaka Beta 1. It is available, as usual, on the Jenkins server Debian repository: deb http://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/debian jessie-mitaka-backports main
deb-src http://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/debian jessie-mitaka-backports main
deb http://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/debian jessie-mitaka-backports-nochange main
deb-src http://mitaka-jessie.pkgs.mirantis.com/debian jessie-mitaka-backports-nochange main Not all of the updated packages avialable above has been uploaded to Debian Experimental, mostly those needing to pass the FTP master NEW queue did. I will upload the rest as I find enough time to do so, which unfortunately may not happen before Mitaka b2 (which will be in the middle of January). OpenStack Liberty uploaded to jessie-backports Also, as python-repoze.who 2.x finally could migrate to Debian testing (after filed to be removed dependencies got removed by the FTP masters), python-pysaml2 3.0, and then Keystone also did. So this week-end, all of OpenStack Liberty reached testing. So today, I could finally upload all of OpenStack liberty in the official jessie-backports repository. This is 165 packages that I uploaded, out of which 135 are going through the backports NEW queue. I m sorry to give that much work to the FTP masters, but most OpenStack users do want to use the latest release of OpenStack on top of the latest stable distributions. So this upload really is what OpenStack Debian user will prefer (until we have PPA^Wbikesheds for Debian).

23 November 2015

Thomas Goirand: OpenStack Liberty and Debian

Long over due post It s been a long time I haven t written here. And lots of things happened in the OpenStack planet. As a full time employee with the mission to package OpenStack in Debian, it feels like it is kind of my duty to tell everyone about what s going on. Liberty is out, uploaded to Debian Since my last post, OpenStack Liberty, the 12th release of OpenStack, was released. In late August, Debian was the first platform which included Liberty, as I proudly outran both RDO and Canonical. So I was the first to make the announcement that Liberty passed most of the Tempest tests with the beta 3 release of Liberty (the Beta 3 is always kind of the first pre-release, as this is when feature freeze happens). Though I never made the announcement that Liberty final was uploaded to Debian, it was done just a single day after the official release. Before the release, all of Liberty was living in Debian Experimental. Following the upload of the final packages in Experimental, I uploaded all of it to Sid. This represented 102 packages, so it took me about 3 days to do it all. Tokyo summit I had the pleasure to be in Tokyo for the Mitaka summit. I was very pleased with the cross-project sessions during the first day. Lots of these sessions were very interesting for me. In fact, I wish I could have attended them all, but of course, I can t split myself in 3 to follow all of the 3 tracks. Then there was the 2 sessions about Debian packaging on upstream OpenStack infra. The goal is to setup the OpenStack upstream infrastructure to allow packaging using Gerrit, and gating each git commit using the usual tools: building the package and checking there s no FTBFS, running checks like lintian, piuparts and such. I knew already the overview of what was needed to make it happen. What I didn t know was the implementation details, which I hoped we could figure out during the 1:30 slot. Unfortunately, this didn t happen as I expected, and we discussed more general things than I wished. I was told that just reading the docs from the infra team was enough, but in reality, it was not. What currently needs to happen is building a Debian based image, using disk-image-builder, which would include the usual tools to build packages: git-buildpackage, sbuild, and so on. I m still stuck at this stage, which would be trivial if I knew a bit more about how upstream infra works, since I already know how to setup all of that on a local machine. I ve been told by Monty Tailor that he would help. Though he s always a very busy man, and to date, he still didn t find enough time to give me a hand. Nobody replied to my request for help in the openstack-dev list either. Hopefully, with a bit of insistence, someone will help. Keystone migration to Testing (aka: Debian Stretch) blocked by python-repoze.who Absolutely all of OpenStack Liberty, as of today, has migrated to Stretch. All? No. Keystone is blocked by a chain of dependency. Keystone depends on python-pysaml2, itself blocked by python-repoze.who. The later, I upgraded it to version 2.2. Though python-repoze.what depends on version <= 1.9, which is blocking the migration. Since python-repoze.who-plugins, python-repoze.what and python-repoze.what-plugins aren t used by any package anymore, I asked for them to be removed from Debian (see #805407). Until this request is processed by the FTP masters, Keystone, which is the most important piece of OpenStack (it does the authentication) will be blocked for migration to Stretch. New OpenStack server packages available On my presentation at Debconf 15, I quickly introduced new services which were released upstream. I have since packaged them all: Congress, unfortunately, was not accepted to Sid yet, because of some licensing issues, especially with the doc of python-pulp. I will correct this (remove the non-free files) and reattempt an upload. I hope to make them all available in jessie-backports (see below). For the previous release of OpenStack (ie: Kilo), I skipped the uploads of services which I thought were not really critical (like Ironic, Designate and more). But from the feedback of users, they would really like to have them all available. So this time, I will upload them all to the official jessie-backports repository. Keystone v3 support For those who don t know about it, Keystone API v3 means that, on top of the users and tenant, there s a new entity called a domain . All of the Liberty is now coming with Keystone v3 support. This includes the automated Keystone catalog registration done using debconf for all *-api packages. As much as I could tell by running tempest on my CI, everything still works pretty well. In fact, Liberty is, to my experience, the first release of OpenStack to support Keystone API v3. Uploading Liberty to jessie-backports I have rebuilt all of Liberty for jessie-backports on my laptop using sbuild. This is more than 150 packages (166 packages currently). It took me about 3 days to rebuild them all, including unit tests run at build time. As soon as #805407 is closed by the FTP masters, all what s remaining will be available in Stretch (mostly Keystone), and the upload will be possible. As there will be a lot of NEW packages (from the point of view of backports), I do expect that the approval will take some time. Also, I have to warn the original maintainers of the packages that I don t maintain (for example, those maintained within the DPMT), that because of the big number of packages, I will not be able to process the usual communication to tell that I m uploading to backports. However, here s the list of package. If you see one that you maintain, and that you wish to upload the backport by yourself, please let me know. Here s the list of packages, hopefully, exhaustive, that I will upload to jessie-backports, and that I don t maintain myself: alabaster contextlib2 kazoo python-cachetools python-cffi python-cliff python-crank python-ddt python-docker python-eventlet python-git python-gitdb python-hypothesis python-ldap3 python-mock python-mysqldb python-pathlib python-repoze.who python-setuptools python-smmap python-unicodecsv python-urllib3 requests routes ryu sphinx sqlalchemy turbogears2 unittest2 zzzeeksphinx. More than ever, I wish I could just upload these to a PPA^W Bikeshed, to minimize the disruption for both the backports FTP masters, other maintainers, and our OpenStack users. Hopefully, Bikesheds will be available soon. I am sorry to give that much approval work to the backports FTP masters, however, using the latest stable system with the latest release, is what most OpenStack users really want to do. All other major distributions have specific repositories too (ie: RDO for CentOS / Red Hat, and cloud archive for Ubuntu), and stable-backports is currently the only place where I can upload support for the Stable release. Debian listed as supported distribution on openstack.org Good news! If you go at http://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/ you will see a list of supported distributions. I am proud to be able to tell that, after 6 months of lobbying from my side, Debian is also listed there. The process of having Debian there included talking with folks from the OpenStack foundation, and having Bdale to sign an agreement so that the Debian logo could be reproduced on openstack.org. Thanks to Bdale Garbee, Neil McGovern, Jonathan Brice, and Danny Carreno, without who this wouldn t have happen.

7 June 2015

Thomas Goirand

There s a lot of things I d like to blog about. The last version of OpenStack, the OpenStack Liberty design summit, Kilo in the official jessie-backports repositories, etc. Maybe the most interesting part of this blog post is the last bit at the end, about a major change in the packaging workflow for OpenStack in Debian. Please read on OpenStack release names reminder
Just a reminder to make it easier for the average Debian reader who may know Debian well, but not OpenStack. OpenStack 2014.1, is Icehouse, and is the version in Jessie. 2014.2 is Juno and was released right before the freeze of Jessie. 2015.1.0 is what has been released just right after jessie, on the 30th of April. Liberty, which probably will be called 12 (as this will be the 12th release of OpenStack), and not 2015.2 (this has been discussed in Vancouver), will be released in about 5 months form now. The last summit, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, was the Liberty summit, as the OpenStack conventions are always named after the next release (since we are discussing what we will be doing during the next development cycle). OpenStack 2015.1.0, aka Kilo, release in Debian
5 days after the release of Jessie, OpenStack 2015.1.0, aka Kilo, was released. Since I couldn t upload to unstable during the freeze, I was holding a lot of packages, and when I did upload them, there was about 20 packages of mine in the FTP master s NEW queue. Though, since the DSA want to use OpenStack for the Debian infrastructure, the 20 packages were fast track into Sid, thanks to the work of Paultag (thanks man!). OpenStack Kilo in the official Jessie backports
Previously, I was only uploading OpenStack packages to Debian unstable, and maintaining a non-official Debian repositories for backports to Debian stable. However, for multiple reasons, this wasn t satisfying. Then, after packages migrated to Stretch, I started to upload to Debian backports. And right before the summit, almost everything went in. Only python-pysaml2 was missing (as I discovered too late that version 2.0.0 breaks Keystone which needs version 2.4.0). In fact, the last bits of the Kilo release reached jessie-backports in the middle of the OpenStack Liberty summit. Removal of the Debian install-guide from the official site
As there was not enough efforts working on the documentation, unfortunately, the link to the Debian install-guide has been removed from docs.openstack.org. IMO, this is mostly due to a bad communication between myself and the doc team, and also because one person who promised to work on the Debian side of the install-guide failed to warn everyone that he finally couldn t (as his managers assigned him to something else). I hope this will soon be reverted. During the Vancouver summit, I had the opportunity to discuss with the doc team about re-inclusion of the Debian install-guide. Unfortunately, as they are moving away from the XML source format to a more standard RST-based system, the current documentation is frozen, so it seems more realistic to hold on until all of the install-guide is switched to RST. OpenStack Debian image listed on apps.openstack.org
There s a new area on the openstack.org where images and apps for OpenStack are listed. Under the glance image tab, you will see that both the Jessie and the weekly testing image are listed. There s also a nice, easily identifiable Debian logo to link to these images. Also, as there are trademark problems with the Ubuntu images which makes them harder to redistribute, the Murano project (which is shipping a system to automatically install apps that to installed within a few clicks on an OpenStack cloud) decided to switch to Debian for their base image. Debian listed in the OpenStack market place
On the openstack.org site, there s a section called Marketplace. In there, vendors supporting OpenStack are listed. To get there, a vendor needs to 1/ have a defined set of OpenStack project supported by the distribution (Debian already has a way more than the required set), 2/ sign some kind of agreement with the OpenStack foundation, and 3/ pay some sponsoring money. During the summit, I discussed this with Jonathan Bryce, from the OpenStack foundation, and he agreed that Debian would not have to pay for this (since we aren t a big company with big money). I have put Jonathan and Neil (our Debian Project Leader) in touch so that signing the document may happen, though since we were all busy with the summit, I do not expect Jonathan to send the documents right away. Hopefully, this will be fixed before the end of this month of May 2015. Debian (and Ubuntu) packages collaboratively maintained upstream
Since about forever (forever is 5 years in the OpenStack world ), I pushed for more collaboration on OpenStack packaging between Debian package maintainers and Canonical. However, for some reasons which I do not wish to expand on in this blog post, it has been socially hard to do so. Also, Canonical always used BZR, which wasn t to the tastes of everyone. But during the Liberty summit, some very good things happened. First of all, Launchpad is now able to support Git (it s been a few weeks it does in fact). Even though it will take a bit of time before the Canonical server team switches to it, we can consider that this problem is already out of the way. Then it looks like Canonical are now more open than before for collaboration with Debian on the OpenStack packaging. Note that we actually did some work together already, but now we both would like a full alignment of *all* of our packages. I have discussed this with James Page, who is the head of Canonical s server team. We will first start to do so on the dependencies: this includes all of the python-*client libraries, but also all of python-oslo.* (the Oslo libs are use by all of the projects and are kind of unifying the project), plus all the third party dependencies the project relies on. James already pushed new versions of some Oslo libraries to Experimental (in order to not overwrite Kilo), which are adding transition packages needed for Ubuntu. We wont need those in Debian, but we want to welcome them to keep the same source packages. We will then later try to merge the core projects if we can. Unfortunately, since the packaging of the core projects (ie: Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, etc.) was forked, merging probably will be a bit painful. We will have to make some decisions on how this happen. I am however confident that it will be done during the Liberty release cycle. Move of the packaging to upstream Gerrit
A few weeks after the summit, I wrote a proposal to upstream OpenStack dev list, with as subject: Adding packaging as an OpenStack project . What it means is that I have proposed to have Debian/Ubuntu packaging to happen in upstream infrastructure, using Gerrit, and building packages using upstream cloud. We will add all the tests we can, like building with unit tests, lintian, piuparts, adequate, but also maybe a full installation of the packages with functional tests. My proposal is here: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/064848.html As everything, this translates into a Gerrit review process: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185187/ As you can read in the above thread, Fedora/RDO people, which have used a Gerrit work-flow for a long time already, also would like to join. But it looks like we ll be doing 2 teams: one for RPMs and one for debs. The proposal is currently under review by the OpenStack technical committee, which will accept (or not) if the packaging project can be fully considered as an OpenStack project. I expect a final answer next Tuesday. Note that if they deny, we can still use the stackforge namespace instead, their decision is just about the TC blessing the project as being OpenStack or not. What s very nice about this, is that not only we will have a better collaboration between Debian & Ubuntu, better automated testing and Q/A, this also opens contributions to potentially anyone. Especially, we welcome operation people, those who are doing actual big deployments. Sure, it was possible before, but I often had the feedback that many were scared to break anything when trying to contribute. Thanks to the CI/CD form upstream infra, and the Gerrit peer review process, it wont be a problem anymore. So we do expect operation people to contribute more. I will also push more upstream packaging within Mirantis, so that MOS (Mirantis OpenStack) aligns fully with Debian & Ubuntu as well. Another good thing, is that it will be easier for the puppet team to support Debian (they historically were more Ubuntu oriented), and it s going to be super easy for them to request for packaging fixes. I hope we will be able to work hand-to-hand with them, adding puppet deployment checks in the packaging repo, and packaged deployments within the puppet Gerrit review process.

3 May 2015

Erich Schubert: @Zigo: Why I don't package Hadoop myself

A quick reply to Zigo's post:
Well, I looked at the Bigtop efforts because I needed Hadoop packages. But they are not very useful. They have lots of issues (including empty packages, naming conflicts etc.).
I filed a few bugs, and I even uploaded my fixes to Github. Some of that went unnoticed, because Sean Owen of Cloudera decided to remove all Debian packaging from Spark. But in the end, even with these fixes, the resulting packages do not live up to Debian quality standards (not to say, they would outright violate policy).
If you wanted to package Hadoop properly, you should ditch Apache Bigtop, and instead use the existing best practises for packaging. Using any of the Bigtop work just makes your job harder, by pulling in additional dependencies like their modified Groovy.
But whatever you do, you will be stuck in .jar dependency hell. Whatever you look at, it pulls in another batch of dependencies, that all need to be properly packaged, too. Here is the dependency chain of Hadoop:
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    +- com.google.guava:guava:jar:11.0.2:compile
[INFO]    +- org.mortbay.jetty:jetty:jar:6.1.26:compile
[INFO]    +- org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-util:jar:6.1.26:compile
[INFO]    +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-core:jar:1.9:compile
[INFO]    +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:jar:1.9:compile
[INFO]       \- asm:asm:jar:3.1:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-cli:commons-cli:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.4:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-io:commons-io:jar:2.4:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.6:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-daemon:commons-daemon:jar:1.0.13:compile
[INFO]    +- javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    +- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.17:compile
[INFO]    +- com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:jar:2.5.0:compile
[INFO]    +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:compile
[INFO]    +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:jar:1.9.13:compile
[INFO]    +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:jar:1.9.13:compile
[INFO]    +- tomcat:jasper-runtime:jar:5.5.23:compile
[INFO]    +- xmlenc:xmlenc:jar:0.52:compile
[INFO]    +- io.netty:netty:jar:3.6.2.Final:compile
[INFO]    +- xerces:xercesImpl:jar:2.9.1:compile
[INFO]       \- xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.3.04:compile
[INFO]    \- org.htrace:htrace-core:jar:3.0.4:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-auth:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    +- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.5:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:jar:4.2.5:compile
[INFO]       \- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:jar:4.2.4:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.directory.server:apacheds-kerberos-codec:jar:2.0.0-M15:compile
[INFO]       +- org.apache.directory.server:apacheds-i18n:jar:2.0.0-M15:compile
[INFO]       +- org.apache.directory.api:api-asn1-api:jar:1.0.0-M20:compile
[INFO]       \- org.apache.directory.api:api-util:jar:1.0.0-M20:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper:jar:3.4.6:compile
[INFO]       +- org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:jar:1.7.5:compile
[INFO]       \- jline:jline:jar:0.9.94:compile
[INFO]    \- org.apache.curator:curator-framework:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-annotations:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]       \- jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6:system
[INFO]    +- org.apache.commons:commons-math3:jar:3.1.1:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:jar:3.1:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-net:commons-net:jar:3.1:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2.1:compile
[INFO]    +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-json:jar:1.9:compile
[INFO]       +- org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO]       +- com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl:jar:2.2.3-1:compile
[INFO]          \- javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:jar:2.2.2:compile
[INFO]             +- javax.xml.stream:stax-api:jar:1.0-2:compile
[INFO]             \- javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO]       +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-jaxrs:jar:1.8.3:compile
[INFO]       \- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-xc:jar:1.8.3:compile
[INFO]    +- net.java.dev.jets3t:jets3t:jar:0.9.0:compile
[INFO]       \- com.jamesmurty.utils:java-xmlbuilder:jar:0.4:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-configuration:commons-configuration:jar:1.6:compile
[INFO]       +- commons-digester:commons-digester:jar:1.8:compile
[INFO]          \- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO]       \- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils-core:jar:1.8.0:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.avro:avro:jar:1.7.4:compile
[INFO]       +- com.thoughtworks.paranamer:paranamer:jar:2.3:compile
[INFO]       \- org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java:jar:1.0.4.1:compile
[INFO]    +- com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.2.4:compile
[INFO]    +- com.jcraft:jsch:jar:0.1.42:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.curator:curator-client:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.curator:curator-recipes:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    +- com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:jar:1.3.9:compile
[INFO]    \- org.apache.commons:commons-compress:jar:1.4.1:compile
[INFO]       \- org.tukaani:xz:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-core:jar:1.2.1:compile
[INFO]    +- org.apache.commons:commons-math:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    +- tomcat:jasper-compiler:jar:5.5.23:compile
[INFO]    +- org.mortbay.jetty:jsp-api-2.1:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO]       \- org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api-2.5:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO]    +- org.mortbay.jetty:jsp-2.1:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO]       \- ant:ant:jar:1.6.5:compile
[INFO]    +- commons-el:commons-el:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    +- hsqldb:hsqldb:jar:1.8.0.10:compile
[INFO]    +- oro:oro:jar:2.0.8:compile
[INFO]    \- org.eclipse.jdt:core:jar:3.1.1:compile
So the first step for packaging Hadoop would be to check which of these dependencies are not yet packaged in Debian... I guess 1/3 is not.
Maybe, we should just rip out some of these dependencies with a cluebat. For the stupid reason of making a webfrontend (which doesn't provide a lot of functionality, and I doubt many people use it at all), Hadoop embeds not just one web server, but two: Jetty and Netty...
Things would also be easier if e.g. S3 support, htrace, the web frontend, and different data serializations were properly put into modules. Then you could postpose S3 support, for example.
As I said, the deeper you dig, the crazier it gets.
If the OpenDataPlatform efforts of Hortonworks, Pivotal and IBM were anything but a marketing gag, they would try to address these technical issues. Instead, they make things worse by specifying yet another fatter core, including Ambari, Apaches attempt to automatically make a mess out of your servers - essentially, they are now adding the ultimate root shell, for all those cases where unaudited puppet commands and "curl sudo bash" was not bad enough:
Example:
  command1 = as_sudo(["cat,"/etc/passwd"]) + "   grep user"
(from the Ambari python documentation)
The closer you look, the more you want to rather die than use this.
P.S. I have updated the libtrove3-java package (Java collections for primitive types; but no longer the fastest such library), so that it is now in the local maven repository (/usr/share/maven-repo) and that it can be rebuilt reproducible (the build user name is no longer in the jar manifest).

28 April 2015

Thomas Goirand: @Erich Schubert: why not trying to package Hadoop in Debian?

Erich, As a follow-up on your blog post, where you complain about the state of Hadoop. First, I couldn t agree more with all you wrote. All of it! But why not trying to get Hadoop in Debian, rather than only complaining about the state of things? I have recently packaged and uploaded Sahara, which is OpenStack big data as a service (in other words: running Hadoop as a service on an OpenStack cloud). Its working well, though it was a bit frustrating to discover exactly what you complained about: the operating system cloud image needed to run within Sahara can only be downloaded as a pre-built image, which is impossible to check. It would have been so much work to package Hadoop that I just gave up (and frankly, packaging all of OpenStack in Debian is enough work for a single person doing the job so no, I don t have time to do it myself). OpenStack Sahara already provides the reproducible deployment system which you seem to wish. We only need Hadoop itself.

3 February 2015

Thomas Goirand: OpenStack packaging activity, November 2014 to January 2015

November 2014:
Sunday 2nd:
Travel from Moscow to Paris Monday 3rd to Sunday 8th:
Summit in Paris Monday 10th:
Uploaded python-rudolf to Sid (needed by Fuel)
Uploaded python-invoke and python-invocations (needed to run fabric s unit tests)
Uploaded python-requests-kerberos/0.5-2 fixing CVE-2014-8650: failure to handle mutual authentication. Asked the release team for unblock.
Uploaded openstack-pkg-tools version 19 fixing startup with systemd in Jessie (added RuntimeDirectory directive). Asked the release team for unblock.
Opened ticket to remove TripleO, Tuskar and Ironic packages from Jessie. I don t consider them ready for a Debian stable release, and there s no long term support from upstream.
Fixed Designate Juno dbsync process which prevented it from being installed.
Fixed Ironic Juno unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8): /var/lib/ironic/ cache, ironicdb (eg: purging these folders on purge) Thuesday 11:
Fixed nova-api CVE-2014-3708: Nova network DoS through API filtering in both the Juno and Icehouse release. Asked the release team to unblock the Icehouse version for Jessie. See: https://bugs.debian.org/769163
Uploaded Cinder with Duch debconf translation fix and pt.po
Uploaded python-django-pyscss with upstream patch for Django 1.7 support instead of the Debian one that I wrote 2 months ago. Asked the release team to unblock which they did. Wednesday 12:
Uploaded fix for horizon (see #769101) unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8). Now purging /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard on purge.
Uploaded Ironic with Duch translations of debconf
Uploaded Designate with Duch translations of Debconf screens
Uploaded openstack-trove with Duch translations of Debconf screens
Uploaded Tuskar with Duch translations of Debconf screens
Updated python-oslotest in Experimental to version 1.2.0 Thursday 13:
Uploaded new packages: python-oslo.middleware and python-oslo.concurrency.
Opened a new packaging branch for Nova Kilo, and updated (build-)depends.
Uploaded fix for Icehouse Cinder: delete volume failed due to unicode problems , and asked for unblock.
Uploaded new package: python-pygit2 and python-xmlbuilder, needed for fuel-agent-ci.
Uploaded sheepdog with Duch debconf translation.
Uploaded python-daemonize to Sid (in FTP master NEW queue).
Re-uploaded python-invoke after FTP master rejection (missing copyright information) Friday 14:
Uploaded liberasurecode & python-pyeclib to Sid, now in the FTP masters NEW queue waiting for approval. This will soon be needed by Swift. Monday 17:
Worked on the Cobbler packaging (all day long ) Tuesday 18:
Worked on backporting all of Fuel packages to Wheezy. Done with fuelclient already.
Uploaded ruby-cstruct and ruby-rethtool to Sid (needed by nailgun-agent) Wednesday 19:
Uploaded pyeclib again, with fixes for the build-depends. Package is still in the NEW queue anyway.
Built a Debian-based bootstrap hardware discovery image for Fuel, and it seems that it works already (to be checked )! \o/
To be added as packages in the ISO:
* nailgun-mcagents
* nailgun-net-check
* fuel-agent
* python-tasklib Thursday 20:
Uploaded python-tasklib to Sid (now in NEW queue )
Continued working on the discovery bootstrap ISO Friday 21:
Documented Sahara procedure in Debian in the official install-guide: https://review.openstack.org/136237
Fixed oslo.messaging so it doesn t use PROTOCOL_SSLv3 because its support has been removed from Debian (due to possible protocol downgrade attacks): https://review.openstack.org/136278 and uploaded fixed packages for Sid and Experimental.
Uploaded fixed Neutron packages for CVE-2014-7821 in both Sid and Experimental (eg: Icehouse and Juno) Monday 24:
Uploaded new package: python-os-client-config (in NEW queue)
Installed new Xen server to be used as my new Jenkins build machine
Moved the juno-wheezy VM to it
Finished to package python-pymysql and uploaded to Sid. It s now running all unit tests successfully! \o/ Tuesday 25:
Uploaded fix for openstack-debian-images to add the -o compat=1.0 option when building an image with Qemu > 1.0. Opened bug to the release team to have it unblocked.
Continued working on unit tests for fuel-nailgun. Wednesday 26:
Uploaded python-os-net-config to Sid (new package)
Worked briefly on python-cassandra-driver. It needs cassandra to be in, which is a LOT of work.
Found a (not useable) hack to run nailgun unit tests. It works, however, it doesn t seem like fuel-nailgun is designed to be able to use unix socket for the postgres connection in its unit tests.
Uploaded python-pykmip to Sid (new package)
Updated the Debian wheezy backport repository for libvirt to version 1.2.9 from official wheezy-backports. Removed policykit-1 and libusb from there too, as it broke stuff to use a backported version (X and usb were not useable on my Wheezy laptop when using it ). Thursday 27 & Friday 28:
Uploaded new Javascript packages or dependencies for Fuel: libjs-autonumeric, libjs-backbone-deep-model, libjs-backbone.stickit, libjs-cocktail, libjs-i18next, libjs-require-css, libjs-requirejs, libjs-requirejs-text Sunday 30:
Uploaded debian/copyright fixes for libjs-backbone-deep-model, libjs-backbone.stickit and libjs-cocktail after the packages were accepted by the FTP masters and they gave remarks about copyright. DECEMBER 2014 Monday 01:
Uploaded new Debian image to MOX, after I unerstood the issue was about the architecture field that I was wrongly filling. I ll be able to use that for Tempest checking on my dev account. Tuesday 02:
Uploaded python-q-text-as-data to Sid (new awesome package!)
Uploaded Horizon with some triggers mechanisms to start the compress when one of its JS depends is updated. That s very important for security!
Uploaded a fixed version of heat-cfntools to Sid (it was missing the /usr/lib/python* folder). Asked the release team for an unblock so it can reach Jessie.
Fixed unit tests in fuel-nailgun, thanks to a patch from Sebastian Kalinowski. Now all unit tests are passing but one (for which I opened a launchpad bug: tests are trying to write in /var/log/nailgun, which is impossible at package build time). Wednesday 03:
Uploaded fixed version of ruby-rethtool after FTP master s rejection and upstream correction of licensing files.
Uploaded fixed version of libjs-require-css after FTP master s rejection
Fixed (in Git only) python-sysv-ipc missing build-depends on dh-python as per bug opened by James Page (this is not so important, but I did it still).
Continued working on the tempest-ci scripts.
Added to the image-guide docs about openstack-debian-images: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/138743/ Thursday 04:
Uploaded new package: python-proliantutils. Send patch to upstream about an issue in indentation (mix-up with space and tabs) which made the package uninstallable with Python 3.4. Friday 05:
Worked on the package CI. Monday 07:
Worked on the package CI. All works now, up to all of the Tempest tests for Keystone. Now need to fix the neutron config. Thuesday 08:
Continued working on the CI. Wednesday 09:
Uploaded fix for FTBFS of python-tasklib (Closes: #772606)
Uploaded fix for libjerasure-deb missing dependency on libgf-complete-dev, package already unblocked and will migrate to Jessie.
Uploaded fix for Designate Juno fail to upgrade from Icehouse: this was due to the database_connection directive renamed to connection =.
Uploaded fix for Designate purge in Sid (Icehouse release of Designate).
Commited to git updates of the German debconf translation in both Icehouse and Juno.
Updated nova to use libvirtd as init script dependency instead of libvirt-bin (this was renamed in the libvirt-daemon-system package).
Do not touch the db connection directive if user didn t ask for db handling by the package. Thursday 10 to Saturday 13:
Finally understood the issues with systemd service files not being activated by default. Fixed openstack-pkg-tools, and uploaded version 20 to Sid, after the release team accepted the changes. Sunday 14:
Uploaded Juno 2014.2.1 to Experimental: ceilometer, cinder, glance, python-glance-store, heat, horizon, keystone Monday 15:
Finished uploading Juno 2014.2.1 to Experimental: Nova, Neutron, Sahara Tuesday 16:
Added crontab to flush tokens in Icehouse Keystone
Some more CI work Wednesday 17:
Uploaded keystone with systemd fix and crontab to flush the token table in Sid (eg: Icehouse).
Uploaded nova Icehouse with a bunch of fixes in Sid. Thursday 18:
Updated some issues in Nova Icehouse (Sid/Jessie) Friday 19:
Started building a new Jenkins instance for building Kilo packages Monday 22:
Finished building the new Jenkins instance for building Kilo packages, and rebuilt every packages there, using Jessie as a base. Tuesday 23:
Updated version for the following packages: oslo.utils, oslo.middleware, stevedore, oslo.concurency, pecan, oslo.concurrency, python-oslo.vmware, python-glance-store
Built so far: Ceilometer, Keystone, python-glanceclient, cinder, glance Wednesday 24:
Continued packaging Kilo beta 1. Updated: nova, designate, neutron
Uploaded python-tempest-lib to Debian Unstable (new package) Wednesday 31:
Continued packaging Kilo beta 1. Updated: heat JANUARY 2015 Thursday 01:
Continued packaging Kilo beta 1. Updated: ironic, openstack-trove, openstack-doc-tools, ceilometer Friday 02:
Finished packaging Kilo beta 1. Updated: Sahara, Murano, Murano-dashboard, Murano-agent Sunday 04:
Started testing Kilo beta 1. Fixed a few issues on default configuration for Ceilometer and Glance. Monday 05:
Fixed openstack-pkg-tools which failed to create PID files at boot time, Uploaded to Sid, asked the release team for unblock.
Uploaded ceilometer & cinder to Sid, rebuilt against openstack-pkg-tools 21.
Did more testing of Kilo beta 1, fixed a few more minor issues. Tuesday 06:
Uploaded glance, neutron, nova, designate, keystone, heat, trove to Sid, so that all sysv-rc init scripts are fixed with the new openstack-pkg-tools 21. Designate, heat, keystone and trove contains other minor fixes reported to the Debian BTS. Wednesday 07:
Asked the Debian release team (open bugs with debdiff as attachment) for unblocks of glance, neutron, nova, designate, keystone, heat, trove so they migrate to Jessie.
Fixed a few minor issues tracked in the Debian BTS on various packages. Thesday 08:
James Page from Canonical informed me that they are now using openstack-pkg-tools for maintaining their daemons in Nova, Cinder and Keystone in Ubuntu. That s an awesome news : more QA for both platforms.
James Page found out that dh_installinit *must* be called *after* the call of dh_systemd_enable, otherwise, daemons aren t started automatically at the first install of packages, as the unmask of systemd happens after the invoke-rc.d. Friday 09:
Did some QA checks on the latest upload. Fixed Heat which broke because using the wrong template name (glance instead of heat). Monday 12:
Started re-running the automated openstack-deploy scrip in Icehouse, Juno and Kilo. Found out the issue in Keystone wasn t fixed in Juno (but was fixed in other releases), and fixed it.
Removed the use of ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3 from heat (removed form Debian). Uploaded the fixed package to Sid.
All of openstack-deploy (debian/kilo branch) now works and succesfully installs OpenStack again. If dh_installinit is called before, we have:
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/keystone" ]; then
update-rc.d keystone defaults >/dev/null
fi
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/keystone" ]   [ -e "/etc/init/keystone.conf" ]; then
invoke-rc.d keystone start   true
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_systemd_enable
# This will only remove masks created by d-s-h on package removal.
deb-systemd-helper unmask keystone.service >/dev/null   true
# was-enabled defaults to true, so new installations run enable.
if deb-systemd-helper --quiet was-enabled keystone.service; then
# Enables the unit on first installation, creates new
# symlinks on upgrades if the unit file has changed.
deb-systemd-helper enable keystone.service >/dev/null   true
else
# Update the statefile to add new symlinks (if any), which need to be
# cleaned up on purge. Also remove old symlinks.
deb-systemd-helper update-state keystone.service >/dev/null   true
fi
# End automatically added section
If it s called after dh_systemd_enable, we have:
# Automatically added by dh_systemd_enable
# This will only remove masks created by d-s-h on package removal.
deb-systemd-helper unmask keystone.service >/dev/null   true
# was-enabled defaults to true, so new installations run enable.
if deb-systemd-helper --quiet was-enabled keystone.service; then
# Enables the unit on first installation, creates new
# symlinks on upgrades if the unit file has changed.
deb-systemd-helper enable keystone.service >/dev/null   true
else
# Update the statefile to add new symlinks (if any), which need to be
# cleaned up on purge. Also remove old symlinks.
deb-systemd-helper update-state keystone.service >/dev/null   true
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/keystone" ]; then
update-rc.d keystone defaults >/dev/null
fi
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/keystone" ]   [ -e "/etc/init/keystone.conf" ]; then
invoke-rc.d keystone start   true
fi
# End automatically added section
As a consequence, I have to re-upload version 22 of openstack-pkg-tools and also re-upload all OpenStack core packages to Debian Sid. Fixed a number of issues like:
* dbc_upgrade = true check which shouldn t have been there in postinst.
* <project>/configure_db default value is now always false
* db_sync and pkgos_dbc_postinst are now only done if <project>/configure_db is set to true.
Rebuilt all packages in Juno and Kilo with the above changes. Tuesday 13:
Opened unblock bugs for the release team to unblock all fixed packages.
Made more tests in Juno and Kilo to make sure the fixed bugs in Icehouse are fixed there too.
Fixed numerous issues in Trove (missing trove-conductor.conf, wrong trove-api init file, etc.). More work will be needed for it for both Icehouse and newer releases. Wednesday 14:
Did a doc meeting about debconf. Some doc contributors still want to kill the debconf / debian manual, and I have to not agree.
Made a new patch to better document the keystone install procedure:
Did some bug triaging in the doc about Debian.
Uploaded new versions of core packages to Experimental (eg: Juno) built against openstack-pkg-tools >= 22~, and some fixes forward ported from Icehouse: Keystone, Ceilometer, Cinder, Glance, Heat, Ironic, Murano, Neutron, Nova, Saraha and Murano-agent. All where rebuilt in Juno (Wheezy + Trusty) and Kilo (Jessie only) on my Jenkins. Thuesday 15:
Succesfully booted a live-build Debian live image containing mcollective and nailgun-agent as a Debian replacement for the hardware discovery / boostrap image of Fuel. Now, I need to find a way to use just a kernel + initramfs Friday 16 to Tuesday 20:
Worked on the packaging CI. Wednesday 21:
Fixed https://bugs.debian.org/775636 (Horizon failed to build due to a Moscow timezone change and wrong test). Uploaded to Sid, asked for unblock.
Fixed https://bugs.debian.org/775926: CVE-2015-1195: Glance still allows users to download and delete any file in glance-api server (applied upstream patch). Uploaded to Sid, asked for unblock. Uploaded Juno version to Experimental.
Uploaded openstack-trove with the remaining fixes, asked release team for unblock.
Uploaded python-glanceclient 0.15.0 (Juno) to Experimental because it fixes an issue with HTTPS. Added to it a patch from James Page not yet merged, which fixes unit test with Python 2.7.9 (7 failures otherwise).
Uploaded python-xstatic-d3 as it can t be installed anymore in Sid after a new version of d3 was uploaded. Thursday 22:
Uploaded python-xstatic-smart-table and libjs-angularjs-smart-table to Sid (new packages, now in NEW queue). Friday 23:
Ask for the removal of the below list of packages from Jessie:
python-xstatic
python-xstatic-angular
python-xstatic-angular-cookies
python-xstatic-angular-mock
python-xstatic-bootstrap-datepicker
python-xstatic-bootstrap-scss
python-xstatic-d3
python-xstatic-font-awesome
python-xstatic-hogan
python-xstatic-jasmine
python-xstatic-jquery
python-xstatic-jquery-migrate
python-xstatic-jquery-ui
python-xstatic-jquery.bootstrap.wizard
python-xstatic-jquery.quicksearch
python-xstatic-jquery.tablesorter
python-xstatic-jsencrypt
python-xstatic-qunit
python-xstatic-rickshaw
python-xstatic-spin
libjs-jsencrypt
libjs-spin.js
libjs-twitter-bootstrap-datepicker
libjs-twitter-bootstrap-wizard They are used only in OpenStack Horizon starting on 2014.2 (aka Juno), and Jessie is shipped with Icehouse, so it s IMO best to not carry the burden of maintaining these packages for the life of Jessie. Monday 26:
Enhanced and review requested changes for https://review.openstack.org/147296 (ie: Keystone install with more details about what the package does).
Finished testing network on the CI install. Now need to automate all. Tuesday 27:
Closed all bugs on the rabbitmq-server package (2 correction, one bug triage).
Uploaded a fix for the missing conntrack dependency in neutron-l3-agent.
Restarted working on CI setup of Juno after success with manual install in a Xen domU.
Uploaded fix to make sheepdog build reproducible (patch from the Debian BTS). Thursday 28:
Fixed and uploaded to Sid openstack-debian-images 2 bugs reported by Steve McIntire. Official Debian images for OpenStack are now available at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/ \o/
Note that this is the weekly build of testing. We wont get Debian Stable images before Jessie is out.
Documented the new image thing here: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_obtaining_images.html#debian-images as a new patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/151015/
Fixed my patch for keystone debconf doc at: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147296/ Wednesday 29:
Continued working on packaging CI Thursday 30:
Fixed CVE on Neutron (Juno): L3 agent denial of service with radvd 2.0+
Fixed CVE on Glance (Icehouse + Juno): Glance user storage quota bypass. Asked release team for unblock.
Fixed the image-guide patch after review (ie: https://review.openstack.org/151015)

27 January 2015

Thomas Goirand: OpenStack debian image available from cdimage.debian.org

About a year and a half after I started writing the openstack-debian-images package, I m very happy to announce to everyone that, thanks to Steve McIntyre s help, the official OpenStack Debian image is now generated at the same time as the official Debian CD ISO images. If you are a cloud user, if you use OpenStack on a private cloud, or if you are a public cloud operator, then you may want to download the weekly build of the OpenStack image from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/testing/ Note that for the moment, there s only the amd64 arch available, but I don t think this is a problem: so far, I haven t found any public cloud provider offering anything else than Intel 64 bits arch. Maybe this will change over the course of this year, and we will need arm64, but this can be added later on. Now, for later plans: I still have 2 bugs to fix on the openstack-debian-images package (the default 1GB size is now just a bit too small for Jessie, and the script exits with zero in case of error), but nothing that prevents its use right now. I don t think it will be a problem for the release team to accept these small changes before Jessie is out. When generating the image, Steve also wants to generate a sources.tar.gz containing all the source packages that we include on the image. He already has the script (which is used as a hook script when running the build-openstack-debian-image script), and I am planning to add it as a documentation in /usr/share/doc/openstack-debian-images. Last, probably it would be a good idea to install grub-xen, just as Ian Campbell suggested to make it possible for this image to run in AWS or other Xen based clouds. I would need to be able to test this though. If you can contribute with this kind of test, please get in touch. Feel free to play with all of this, and customize your Jessie images if you need to. The script is (on purpose) very small (around 400 lines of shell script) and easy to understand (no function, it s mostly linear from top to bottom of the file), so it is also very easy to hack, plus it has a convenient hook script facility where you can do all sorts of things (copying files, apt-get install stuff, running things in the chroot, etc.). Again, thanks so much to Steve for working on using the script during the CD builds. This feels me with joy that Debian finally has official images for OpenStack.

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