Description of problem: When trying to setup a remote db for openstack services - openstack-db --init --service `service` fails to init the db without having the service packages installed. it tries to run `service`-manage db_sync and fails: Creating 'nova' database. Asking openstack-nova to sync the database. runuser: user nova does not exist ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 1: Table 'nova.migrate_version' doesn't exist Final sanity check failed. Please file a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com against the openstack-nova package. *Remote db functionality should be added to openstack-db. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openstack-utils-2012.1-2.el6.noarch
It was decided to add support for distributed installs only to: https://github.com/derekhiggins/os-installer This will be added to Fedora/EPEL soon.