Wheezy support?

[Maik Kulbe]

Hi!

I wanted to try XtreemFS and maybe use it in production after testing, but I can't install it as for test systems I only use Debian Wheezy. With the final release scheduled about a week from now there is just no reason to test with squeeze today and upgrade to wheezy in a week, just to see that something doesn't work.

With the current squeeze repository you can't install the client under wheezy, as some libboost libraries are missing.

Is there some roadmap or plan when wheezy will be supported? XtreemFS looks very promising and it would be a pity if the missing support for the next Debian release would hold me back from using it.

[Nico Kruber]

Since we are using the Open Build Service, we rely on them adding recent
distributions into their build system. However, Distributions are only added
after they are released (with the exception of openSUSE which is created
there).

If you want to test with an unreleased distribution (in your case Debian 7),
you can always
A) build binaries from the sources on your own or
B) try to build a package using your distribution's mechanisms and the source
packages available e.g. here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/xtreemfs/Debian_6.0/
There you'll find the Debian-typical triplet xtreemfs_1.4.[diff.gz|dsc|
orig.tar.gz] to build a package.
Due to Debian's naming of the boost packages, our .dsc file probably needs to
be adapted though.

Anyway, even without a package you can evaluate xtreemfs on Debian 7 now with
solution A.


Nico

[Nico Kruber]

FYI: Debian 7 packages are available now for both the unstable and the current
release of xtreemfs:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/xtreemfs/Debian_7.0/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/xtreemfs:/unstable/Debian_7.0/


Nico