[Labs-l] Are you ready for the migration?

[Petr Bena]

This error can be fixed by running:

apt-get install python-setuptools

Can you please describe what that tool does, why does it need to be
run as root and if it change / break anything in system or if it does
only read-only checks?

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> petrb at bots-labs:/tmp/migration-assistant$ sudo python setup.py install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
>     from setuptools import setup
> ImportError: No module named setuptools
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Diederik van Liere
> <dvanliere at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Are you a maintainer of one or more Labs instances? Please continue reading!
>>
>> You might have heard about our efforts to move the Labs infrastructure from
>> our Tampa datacenter to our new datacenter in Ashburn. One thing that *you*
>> could do, is to make sure that all your instances are ready to migrate.
>>
>> How? Glad you ask!
>>
>> On your dev machine, run git clone
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/labs/migration-assistant and make sure that
>> you have Python installed. Next, read the README.m for detailed
>> instructions.
>>
>> If everything goes well, you will get feedback per instance whether we think
>> it's ready to migrate or not. If you can think of more checks to run then
>> please feel free to submit a patch. If you have questions about this tool
>> please email me or find me on IRC, look for drdee.
>>
>> Best,
>> Diederik
>>
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