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Bug#919508: ITP: warewulf -- systems management suite for Linux clusters



Hi Francesco,

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:53 AM Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 14:08:45 -0600 Brian Smith <bsmith@systemfabricworks.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > This fell by the wayside due to the reasons discussed in this bug.
> > Changing to RFP.
>
> That's very sad.
> Thanks anyway for starting the packaging effort.
>
> Is your incomplete work in progress stored somewhere (for instance in a
> public version control repository), so that other people interested can
> take advantage of what you have already done?

https://github.com/SystemFabricWorks/debian-warewulf3

The following build command works on stretch:

$ gbp buildpackage

I had intended to clean this up before publishing it. As far as the
current state is concerned, I believe it does provision debian stretch
-- to some degree.

>
> Is there a better alternative to warewulf?

For Debian, not that I am aware of. xCat seems to get a lot of
attention. I haven't used it, and the documentation says "Ubuntu".

> [Perceus] seems to be a basically dead project.
> I am not aware of any other similar systems...
> What are you currently using to manage an HPC cluster, if I may ask?
>

The cluster that I administrate is not production. That one is
"managed" through manual configuration of dhcpd, etc.

This begs the question : "Why don't I use my own packaging of
warewulf?" The packaging wasn't completed and the requirements for
this cluster change on a regular basis. The lack of interest in
warewulf discouraged me from going further down that road.

Wish i had a better answer for you.

> [Perceus]: see <http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html>
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