diff --git a/manifests/rackspace/all.pp b/manifests/rackspace/all.pp
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--- a/manifests/rackspace/all.pp
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-# TODO - this is currently hardcoded to be a xenserver
-
-#
-# this will be specific to how rackspace composes 
-#  the various backends for openstack
-#
-class nova::rackspace::all(
-  $verbose = 'true',
-  $db_password,
-  $db_name = 'nova',
-  $db_user = 'nova',
-  $db_host = 'localhost',
-  $image_service = 'nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService',
-  $flat_network_bridge = 'xenbr0',
-  $flat_network_bridge_ip = '10.0.0.1',
-  $flat_network_bridge_netmask = '255.255.255.0',
-  $glance_api_servers = 'localhost:9292',
-  $allow_admin_api = 'true',
-  $rabbit_host = undef,
-  $rabbit_port = undef,
-  $rabbit_userid = undef,
-  $rabbit_password = undef,
-  $rabbit_virtual_host='/',
-  $service_down_time='180000000',
-  $quota_instances='1000000',
-  $quota_cores='1000000',
-  $quota_volumes='1000000',
-  $quota_gigabytes='1000000',
-  $quota_floating_ips='1000000',
-  $quota_metadata_items='1000000',
-  $quota_max_injected_files='1000000',
-  $quota_max_injected_file_content_bytes='1000000',
-  $quota_max_injected_file_path_bytes='1000000',
-  $host,
-  $xenapi_connection_password,
-  $xenapi_connection_url = 'localhost',
-  $xenapi_connection_username = 'nova',
-  $xenapi_inject_image = 'false'
-) {
-
-
-  # this is rackspace specific stuff for setting up the repos
-  # most of this code may go away after they are finished
-  # developing
-  stage { 'repo-setup':
-    before => Stage['main'],
-  }
-  class { 'apt':
-    disable_keys => true,
-    #always_apt_update => true,
-    stage => 'repo-setup',
-  }
-  class { 'nova::rackspace::repo':
-   stage => 'repo-setup',
-  }
-  class { 'mysql::server':
-    root_password => 'password'
-  }
-  class { 'nova::rabbitmq':
-    port         => $rabbit_port,
-    userid       => $rabbit_userid,
-    password     => $rabbit_password,
-    virtual_host => $rabbit_virtual_host,
-  }
-  #class { 'nova::rackspace::dev': }
-
-  class { "nova":
-    verbose              => $verbose,
-    sql_connection       => "mysql://${db_user}:${db_password}@${db_host}/${db_name}",
-    image_service        => $image_service,
-    glance_api_servers   => $glance_api_servers,
-    allow_admin_api      => $allow_admin_api,
-    rabbit_host          => $rabbit_host,
-    rabbit_password      => $rabbit_password,
-    rabbit_port          => $rabbit_port,
-    rabbit_userid        => $rabbit_userid,
-    rabbit_virtual_host  => $rabbit_virtual_host,
-    service_down_time    => $service_down_time,
-  }
-
-  class { 'nova::quota':
-    quota_instances      => $quota_instances,
-    quota_cores          => $quota_cores,
-    quota_volumes        => $quota_volumes,
-    quota_gigabytes      => $quota_gigabytes,
-    quota_floating_ips   => $quota_floating_ips,
-    quota_metadata_items => $quota_metadata_items,
-    quota_max_injected_files              => $quota_max_injected_files,
-    quota_max_injected_file_content_bytes => $quota_max_injected_file_content_bytes,
-    quota_max_injected_file_path_bytes    => $quota_max_injected_file_path_bytes,
-  }
-
-  class { "nova::api": enabled => true }
-  class { "nova::compute::xenserver":
-    host                       => $host,
-    xenapi_connection_url      => $xenapi_connection_url,
-    xenapi_connection_username => $xenapi_connection_username,
-    xenapi_connection_password => $xenapi_connection_password,
-    xenapi_inject_image        => $xenapi_inject_image,
-    api_server                 => '127.0.0.1',
-    enabled                    => true
-  }
-  class { "nova::network::flat":
-    enabled => true,
-    flat_network_bridge => $flat_network_bridge,
-    flat_network_bridge_ip => $flat_network_bridge_ip,
-    flat_network_bridge_netmask => $flat_network_bridge_netmask,
-    configure_bridge => false,
-  }
-  class { "nova::objectstore": enabled => false }
-  class { "nova::scheduler": enabled => true }
-  class { 'nova::db':
-    # pass in db config as params
-    password => $db_password,
-    dbname   => $db_name,
-    user     => $db_user,
-    host     => $db_host,
-  }
-}
diff --git a/manifests/rackspace/dev.pp b/manifests/rackspace/dev.pp
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--- a/manifests/rackspace/dev.pp
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-# all of the openstack specific stuff is being moved to herej
-class nova::rackspace::dev() {
-
-  class { 'puppet': }
-  class {
-    [
-      'bzr',
-      'git',
-      'gcc',
-      # I may need to move python-mysqldb to elsewhere if it depends on mysql
-      # python-nova pulls in all of the deps mentioned here
-      'python',
-    ]:
-  }
-  package { 'swig':
-    ensure => installed,
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/manifests/rackspace/repo.pp b/manifests/rackspace/repo.pp
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-class nova::rackspace::repo {
-  # this should not be hard-coded
-  # eventually this will be on a real debian repo
-  apt::source { 'openstack':
-    location    => 'http://jenkins.ohthree.com',
-    release     => 'unstable',
-    repos       => 'main',
-    include_src => false,
-  }
-}