How to generate egg file for nova source, in general nova source building process

[vijaytripathi]

Hi Luis,

As I see in manifests file we need to generate egg file for nova source (e.g. F:\Shared\Software\OpenStack\nova-2013.1.2-py2.7.egg). Can you please help us in understanding flow of nova source build process in our module. Do we manually generate egg file always or is there some repo.

Meanwhile I am also learning this process, but your help would be as always greatly appreciated which would help us in saving valuable time.

Thanks, Vijay

[luisfdez]

Yes, the module now requires a nova egg manually built. I don't know why there is no official egg for nova, but I din't find it in the stantard repos. Do you know how to generate the egg?

The ideal scenario would be to clone the repos and built it automatically, @ppouliot can add more details about this approach. It's feasible but it needs time for refactoring and improving 3rd modules.

It's a pleasure to help you guys! Your tests will be more objective than mines and also help to understand/document how to use the module properly and which points should be improved to make it easier.

Thanks!

[vijaytripathi]

Thanks Luis, I haven't generated egg file ever. Meanwhile I am learning would it possible for you to share a working egg file so that I can test it quickly.

Thanks, Vijay

[luisfdez]

Ok, I've just created one for you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15770715/nova-2013.1.3-py2.7.egg (let me know when it is downloaded to delete it)

Quick steps to build the egg:

- Machine with: python environment (all dependencies used in the module) and git.
- Clone nova repo and checkout a tag (2013.1.3 in this case).
- move to dir and execute: python setup.py bdist_egg (git needs to be on the PATH).
- the egg will be available in the dist folder.

[vijaytripathi]

Thanks Luis. I have downloaded file and noted down steps to build egg in my local enviornment