[CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

+1 for removing it from EPEL, or at least have it in fewer places.

As for the default user, there have been many discussions, at this point I don't care any more; I'm using "root" for my deployments.

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pádraig Brady" <pbrady at redhat.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Cc: "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com>, "Alan Pevec" <apevec at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 19:04:49
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

> On 05/05/14 18:30, Sam Kottler wrote:
>> 
>> On 5/5/14, 11:28 PM, Nux! wrote:
>>> On 05.05.2014 18:24, Sam Kottler wrote:
>>>> During the cloud instance SIG meeting today we talked about future
>>>> plans
>>>> for cloud-init in CentOS. Right now cloud-init is included as part of
>>>> EPEL and that's where most CentOS users consume it from. The problem
>>>> is
>>>> that cloud-init and related bits are critical for building images to
>>>> run
>>>> on a public or private cloud, and we need to build early guest
>>>> initialization tools into the cloud images we produce. Ideally this
>>>> does
>>>> not include adding EPEL or packages from EPEL which have not been
>>>> rebuilt in our build systems.
>>>>
>>>> So, the proposal that there's general consensus upon within the SIG is
>>>> to maintain cloud-init, its dependencies, and any related packages on
>>>> git.centos.org and rebuild them ourselves. I'm one of the maintainers
>>>> in
>>>> EPEL so I offered to maintain the git repos for CentOS, anyone else
>>>> who
>>>> would like to be involved in more than welcome to step up.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts, questions, concerns?
>>> Thanks Sam. I guess the main concern for me is - as a lot of people are
>>> using EPEL - to make sure the version is EPEL is in some kind of sync,
>>> or at least if higher version that it won't mess up stuff.
>> 
>> I think we'd ideally keep the packages in lock-step with one another to
>> prevent versioning problems. The goal here isn't to diverge from EPEL,
>> but rather to consolidate where the required packages 'live' across the
>> different repos (CentOS vs. EPEL).
> 
> I see the epel6 version has gotten out of sync.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168444
> 
> That probably requires syncing the following to EPEL:
> https://git.centos.org/log/rpms!cloud-init/refs!heads!c6-extras
> but changing things like the default user from centos to cloud-user
> to align with RH-COMMON settings?
> 
> However I was wondering about the general point of having
> packages in RH-COMMON, EPEL (6 and 7), and the cloud instance sig
> Should we consider dropping the EPEL versions, or do we need
> to maintain them to handle settings like the default user etc.?
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
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