Add distribution template for "Linaro" (Ubuntu for ARM SoC's)

[duk3luk3]

Summary
Bootstrapping salt on a Beagleboard running Linaro 12.11 fails due to missing distribution template info.
Resolve by adding appropriate template.

Expected behaviour
salt-bootstrap / salt ppa installs salt properly

Observed behaviour
https://gist.github.com/duk3luk3/6141362

[duk3luk3]

Additional info
I installed salt-minion successfully on two beagleboards using the bootstrap script. Two days later, when I wanted to add another beagleboard, it didn't work anymore. I have no idea why - my operating hypothesis is that Linaro changed the distribution info from "Ubuntu" to "Linaro" some time in the last two days. Seems a bit crazy, but should be easy to check.

[techhat]

Thanks for the report, @duk3luk3! Is it safe to say then that a standard Ubuntu package should be appropriate for Linaro? Or is there a special repo that the bootstrap script should be pointing to?

I have added saltstack/salt-bootstrap#191 to handle this in salt-bootstrap, but it should remain open here as well until proper grains support has been added to salt.

[duk3luk3]

Yes, the standard Ubuntu package should work perfectly. It actually is working perfectly, as far as I can tell, on two nodes. I'm currently working with @terminalmage on irc to extend the os detection in salt.

[duk3luk3]

After testing a modified salt-boostrap.sh from @terminalmage, it looks like this: https://gist.github.com/duk3luk3/6141731

So this is looking like a problem with the ppa script collection / the linaro distribution config now.

[terminalmage]

Just dumping this here for reference: grains.items output

Both the pkg and service providers need to be updated to detect Linaro, should be an easy fix. In the meantime I've instructed @duk3luk3 on how to use the providers option to manually specify apt and upstart.