Compiling juju on openSUSE

[Mark Shuttleworth]

You might even just be able to run the unmodified juju client binary
from Ubuntu on OpenSUSE, I believe it's all still statically linked.

Mark

On 20/09/15 22:39, Herman Bergwerf wrote:
> Ok great!
> I looked up the source and I think it can be achieved by updating the
> juju/juju and the juju/utils repo. For some reason I only got the
> juju-local binary by installing the Go code though (I also spoofed my OS by
> pointing juju to a copy of the /etc/os-release from Ubuntu).
> However, I would only need this to make the juju client run on my primary
> linux OS which is currently openSUSE and I'm not sure if that is important
> enough to change the source code. I'm perfectly ok with using Ubuntu for
> the actual cluster although SLES compatibility might be interesting for
> other people.
>
> Op zo 20 sep. 2015 om 12:59 schreef Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com>:
>
>> On 20/09/15 02:23, Andrew Wilkins wrote:
>>> The OS-detection code exists primarily to decide how the Juju
>>> servers/agents should be installed, configured, and how they should
>> behave
>>> at runtime. We should stop being so pedantic on the client side.
>> Definitely, and we must already have a way around that because IIRC we
>> build the code for Windows and MacOS, and the server hasn't (yet :))
>> been ported to those. So I would look to figure out how to instruct the
>> build so as to build the client only on OpenSUSE as a starting point.
>> Then of course patches for the server/controller (should be easy enough)
>> and for agents (to enable SLES charms :)) would be next.
>>
>> Mark
>>