[pkg-eucalyptus-commits] r86 - eucalyptus/trunk/debian

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-07-29 19:33:17 +0000 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 86

Modified:
   eucalyptus/trunk/debian/control
Log:
Attempt to increase verbosity of package descriptions,
please cross/proofread.


Modified: eucalyptus/trunk/debian/control
===================================================================
--- eucalyptus/trunk/debian/control	2010-07-25 23:37:46 UTC (rev 85)
+++ eucalyptus/trunk/debian/control	2010-07-29 19:33:17 UTC (rev 86)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 Package: eucalyptus-common
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, openssh-server, openssh-client, sudo, rsync
-Recommends: avahi-utils, unzip
+Recommends: avahi-utils, unzip, eucalyptus-cloud|eucalyptus-sc|eucalyptus-nc
 Description: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Common files
  EUCALYPTUS is an open source service overlay that implements elastic
  computing using existing resources. The goal of EUCALYPTUS is to allow
@@ -71,31 +71,42 @@
  sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
- This package contains the storage controller part of eucalyptus.
+ This package contains the storage controller part of eucalyptus. This
+ package provides all the lower level functionality for storing data
+ at a particular resource of a compute cluster.
 
 Package: eucalyptus-cloud
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, eucalyptus-common (>= ${binary:Version}), eucalyptus-java-common (>= ${binary:Version})
 Recommends: postfix | mail-transport-agent
 Replaces: eucalyptus-cc (<< 1.6), eucalyptus-sc (<< 1.6), eucalyptus-walrus (<< 1.6)
+Suggests: euca2ools
 Description: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Cloud controller
  EUCALYPTUS is an open source service overlay that implements elastic
  computing using existing resources. The goal of EUCALYPTUS is to allow
  sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
- This package contains the cloud controller part of eucalyptus.
+ This package contains the cloud controller part of eucalyptus. It 
+ presents a web site, i.e. the face of the cloud at a particular
+ site. A cloud will not be functional without storage and node
+ controllers, but those do not need to be installed all on the same
+ machine, hence there is no dependency on the respective packages.
 
 Package: eucalyptus-walrus
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, eucalyptus-common (>= ${binary:Version}), eucalyptus-java-common (>= ${binary:Version})
+Suggests: euca2ools
 Description: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Walrus (S3)
  EUCALYPTUS is an open source service overlay that implements elastic
  computing using existing resources. The goal of EUCALYPTUS is to allow
  sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
- This package contains Walrus, the S3 part of eucalyptus.
+ This package contains Walrus, the S3 part of eucalyptus. Equipped with
+ the right set of certificates, distributed by the the eucalyptus-cloud
+ package, users can use the euca2ools package to upload data to the
+ cloud.
 
 Package: eucalyptus-java-common
 Architecture: amd64 i386
@@ -190,6 +201,9 @@
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
  This package contains the cluster controller part of eucalyptus.
+ It knows about all the resources at particual site of machine that
+ share a single network. Multiple such sites (zones) can be aggregated
+ into a single cloud.
 
 Package: eucalyptus-nc
 Architecture: amd64 i386
@@ -205,7 +219,9 @@
  sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
- This package contains the node controller part of eucalyptus.
+ This package contains the node controller part of eucalyptus. It knows
+ how to start/stop instances on a compute node and commutes their
+ status to the cluster controller.
 
 Package: eucalyptus-gl
 Architecture: amd64 i386
@@ -216,5 +232,7 @@
  sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an
  elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2.
  .
- This package contains the internal log service of eucalyptus.
+ This package contains the internal log service of eucalyptus. From this
+ information one can then determine the user that was running an instance
+ with a particular IP number at a given time.