Re: archive rebuilds
On 15/05/13 at 00:52 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 05/12/2013 05:01 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > First, thanks all for volunteering!
> >
> > >From now on, let's use the debian-qa@ list for coordination (so, please
> > subscribe, if not done already)
> >
> > I'll try to walk you through the tools used to do rebuilds and bug
> > filing. There are three big steps.
> >
> > Step 1: Use AWS to run all the tests and generate logs
> Your readme says:
>
> 0. Local configuration
> ----------------------
> in .bashrc:
> export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-5ZQPKTH4FX2YWIYSKAHTFBCR4QGTKNN3.pem
> export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-5ZQPKTH4FX2YWIYSKAHTFBCR4QGTKNN3.pem
> export EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
> then try 'ec2-describe-instances'
>
> Those commands can be needed to set up the environment:
> export PATH=$PATH:~/.ec2/bin
> export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
>
> However, I failed to find a .ec2 folder anywhere. Where may I find it?
>
> Also, can't I use the euca2ools instead of java? Why do we need java
> anyway? Is that part of what AWS provides?
>
> Sorry if the above seems very dumb questions... I'm not used to AWS yet.
You don't need to worry about that for now, that will be used for nodes
reservation. Yes, I must admit that so far I've been using the
EC2-provided tools, not the ones packaged in Debian. That's sthing that
should be looked into.
Lucas
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