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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh that makes me sad, to lose a wiki page. Sorry about that Jeff! Do you
remember the name of the page or specific keywords (other than Fedora, ha).
I have server access and can look.

Thanks Dwight for the writeup! Let's find a good home for it.

Anne

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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Jeff Darcy <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/22/2010 12:02 PM, dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> >
> > I've recently brought up Swift on a Fedora 13 VM, and would like to
> > offer the following minor changes to the SAIO documentation at
> > http://swift.openstack.org/development_saio.html
> >
> > For the section "As root on guest ...", change the following:
> > 1. Don't bother trying to install "python-software-properties". This
> > doesn't seem to be necessary under Fedora. Or at least you'll be
> > able to upload and download files via `st`, without it.
> >
> > 2. For step 4 listed in the SAIO, instead of apt-get ..., the package
> > names are almost similar. The correct command is:
> >
> > yum install curl gcc bzr memcached python-configobj python-coverage
> > python-devel python-nose python-setuptools python-simplejson
> > python-xattr sqlite xfsprogs python-webob python-eventlet
> > python-greenlet python-paste-deploy
> >
> > Under step 12, "service rsync restart", that doesn't apply under
> > Fedora. Fedora places rsyncd under xinetd, like other similar
> > daemons. So you have to do the following:
> >
> >    - yum install xinetd
> >    - perl -pi -e 's/disable\s=\syes/disable =
> > no/g' /etc/xinetd.d/rync
> >    - chkconfig --add xinetd
> >    - chkconfig xinetd on
> >    - service xinetd start
> >
> > I also note that I found the preferred way to get swift up and
> > running was via checking out the source code, and not using the
> > RPMs. These need a little work presently, in order to be able to
> > duplicate the SAIO approach. They are still useful, for easily
> > bringing in the `st` command, and related support.
>
> I'm pretty sure I brought up many of these same points when I wrote a
> "Swift on Fedora" wiki page back before there was an RPM, but it seems
> to have been nuked.  :(  Perhaps it could have been updated instead.
>
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