Re: [zigo@debian.org: Availability of Debian official cloud images from debian.org]
Le 3/16/13 6:40 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:25:55AM +0100, olivier.sallou@codeless.fr a écrit :
>> Le 3/15/13 8:13 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> any volunteer to join this effort to create such images featuring
>>> med-cloud packages?
>> What would be a med-cloud image ? (but an image containing med-cloud
>> packages)
> Hi all,
>
> the idea behind med-cloud is to install as much tools as possible, while
> limiting the size of the image. Hence it is limited to tools that do not
> depend on graphical environments, but if some command-line tools would pull
> hundreds of megabytes of packages just for themselves, I think that they would
> not be fit for the med-cloud metapackage.
>
> Other from this, it should be a standard installation. Ideally we should
> improve the support for Blends in tasksel, so that making a "med-cloud" image
> would be only the matter of one parameter when creating an image.
>
> Alternatively, a user running a standard image and installing med-cloud should
> have everything he needs (except data !) to run simple analysis, including the
> analysis of large quantities of sequence reads.
>
> Further usage will show us what adjustment we need. For instance, if /tmp is
> in the virtual memory, I expect that some workflow will not work when for
> instance sorting multi-gigabyte BED files, etc.
>
> In complemnt with this, it would be great to have tutorials explaining how to
> fetch data and make it ready for use with the tools that we distribute. One
> solution I know is 'getdata', but did not pass beyond the proof-of-principle
> stage. Can biomaj be used on the command line ?
yes, web interface is only an additional tool for easier administration.
>
> Alternatively or in complement, we can also design a standard file hierarchy
> and configure our tools to use it, so that one could prepare separately some
> data repositories ready for being used from Debian Med images.
>
> Have a nice week-end,
>
>
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