hardcoded /usr/bin path

[vincent-legoll]

I'm trying to run SS from a development environment (i.e. not installed) and there are hardcoded pathes:

WARNING: Failed contacting cloud [SlipStreamRuntimeException]: [toto/myos] with 'sh: 1: /usr/bin/openstack-describe-instances: not found

I tried to change CLI_LOCATION from line 51 in:
SlipStreamServer/jar-connector/src/main/java/com/sixsq/slipstream/connector/CliConnectorBase.java

but that is not working, I think my modification is not taken...

[schaubl]

It will be difficult to have a development SlipStream working like this. You will have to create a lot of symbolic links and to install a lot of dependencies.
The recommended way is to generate RPM files with maven and then installing them directly or via a local yum repository. By doing that, all dependencies will be installed and all the files will be put in the right place.
Please have a look to the following page of the documentation: http://ssdocs.sixsq.com/documentation/developer_guide/building.html

[vincent-legoll]

The hardcoding of /usr/bin is also a problem for real installations, if someone wants to put SS in ~/ss, for example... Packages should be relocatable, some sysadmins will require that.

IMHO, the in-code default values should be relative paths that just work when checking the code with SlipStreamBootstrap.

Does the fact that it does not take my CliConnectorBase.java modification, has something to do with the use of downloaded "-SNAPSHOT"s by maven ?

[schaubl]

Does the fact that it does not take my CliConnectorBase.java modification, has something to do with the use of downloaded "-SNAPSHOT"s by maven ?

Your modifications should have been taken into account.
Please try tu run

mvn clean install

in the SlipStreamServer directory.
And then retry to run SlipStream.