Re: [Starcluster] problem with centOS ami?

From: Dan Yamins <no email>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 08:54:52 -0400

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Fred Rotbart <rotbart_at_softbart.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> The image I meant was ami-7ea24a17 which is the Amazon generic Cluster
> Compute image.
> Rightscale have a beta image,ami-78947f11, which is also Cluster Compute
> compatible.
>
>
Ah -- well, I wasn't intending it to be a Cluster Compute image ... it was
just meant for "regular" amazon images. Are you asking about building a
centOS Cluster Compute image?



> In fact, AFAIK currently these are the only two public images available for
> Cluster Compute.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> - Fred
>
>
> On 3/09/10 23:57 , Dan Yamins wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Fred Rotbart <rotbart_at_softbart.com
>> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> I had started building a lot of stuff from sources. However, the
>> Python 2.6 I took from
>> http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/.
>> Any advantage to building the Python from sources?
>>
>>
>> Well, three reasons:
>>
>> 1) I needed a 64-bit install. Typically I've found that 64-bit
>> pre-compiled binaries are less reliable than building 64-bit. This is
>> the main reason I used a source as opposed to a pre-compiled binary (e.g
>> from python.org <http://python.org> itself).
>>
>>
>> 2) As explained at the top of Chris Lea's post, overwriting the system
>> python on centOS with python26 is really bad. I really really needed
>> to make sure that it didn't screw things up and so I decided to install
>> in /opt, where a completely standard install would work fine and be sure
>> not to interfere. To make a package install work while completely not
>> interfering with the other system installs, putting all the relevant
>> byte-compiled dependencies in version-number-named places throughout the
>> distros, requires alot of finicky work. I'm not comfortable enough with
>> yum to feel like I totally understood how to evaluate whether any given
>> person's repo was likely to be "right". This is the main reason I
>> would use a non-yum-based install vs. a repo install.
>>
>> 3) I wasn't aware of Chris Lea's work -- thank you so much for telling
>> me of it If I had known of it, perhaps I would have used it (if there's
>> a 64-bit version) -- but subject to the above provisos.
>>
>>
>> BTW why did you use the Rightscale image rather than using the
>> Amazon one?
>>
>>
>> I've typically found Rightscale images to be more reliable than Amazon
>> ones actually -- and more things I already need are on them. Which
>> amazon image were you referring to?
>>
>>
>>
>> - Fred
>>
>>
>> On 3/09/10 09:49 , Dan Yamins wrote:
>>
>> Fred, sorry for the delay in reply.
>>
>> I've put the instructions up here at this google doc
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
>> >
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
>> >>
>>
>> Let me know if you can't access this doc.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Fred Rotbart
>> <rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>
>> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Did you happen to make a cookbook for making the CentOS
>> StarCluster AMI?
>> If so can you make it available?
>>
>> - Fred
>>
>>
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