[gentoo-soc] Gentoo Clustering CD Progress Report X+1

[Eric Thibodeau <kyron@neuralbs.com>]

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Picking up where we left off:

_catalyst:_
We're back on track, LiveCD now able to build again, the circular 
dependency is being caused by the fam USE flag (disabled in the spec 
file for now)

_Hit and run:_

I hit 2 bugs today during the LiveCD build and they also got fixed, 
hurray for the quick commits and interaction from the devs!

    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229103
    www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.14 needs to DEPEND on pango, no
    officially fixed in the tree, manually fixed in my snapshot

    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206753 (again)
    "gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3 - parser errors during emerge"

_Coding_

** Finished, as in, it works: **

* net-nds/ldap-auth [1]
     Available versions:  0.1 {authmaster autoconfigure}
     Homepage:            
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=79DB497BA0D95148
     Description:         This meta ebuild automates the configuration 
of OpenLDAP as the authentification backend

[1] /usr/local/portage/soc2008

The whole ldaps-setup.sh script thing I had going is now transformed 
into an ebuild with all the work done in pkg_config because:

1- It lets me fsck the filesystem
2- I get to use my original code almost unchanged

USE flags added:
autoconfigure: "Configure the package with NO user interaction, you get 
what you pay for ;)"
authmaster:      "Differentiate between the authentication server and a 
simple workstation that needs to authenticate"

usage:
emerge net-nds/ldap-auth
emerge --config =net-nds/ldap-auth-0.1

** Started **

* sys-cluster/beowulf-head [1]
     Available versions:  0.1
     Homepage:            
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=79DB497BA0D95148
     Description:         This is a meta ebuild that pulls in the 
packages and some config
scripts/files for building the Gentoo Clustering Master node

Work stared on it, dnsmasq complete but not verified, same for exportfs 
generation and pxelinux.cfg/default file

** git.overlays.gentoo.org **

    FINALLY! My work is now hosted on git.overlays.gentoo.org. I cleaned 
up my sandbox and attempted to organize the stuff as coherently as I 
could. Everyone can now look at my monstrous ebuilds :P

_DOC_

I didn't think I was going to jump on this this quickly but there is 
already a HOWTO in my git repo to reproduce my environment. I am 
currently testing it on a "virgin" machine and all seems to be working 
fine. Speaking of which, check this out:

http://wiki.neuralbs.com/~kyron/soc2008/htopSunFireX4600BuildingGentooClusterCD.jpg

^^^^ This was taken while catalyst was building "something"

Nuf said, go look at the git and the bug reports...this has been a long 
day ;)

Eric

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