[ovirt-devel] oVirt Node ISO rpm-wrapper update

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Montag, den 12.05.2014, 13:13 +0200 schrieb Sandro Bonazzola:
> Il 12/05/2014 13:00, Fabian Deutsch ha scritto:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > the "wrapper rpm" I am going to talk about is an rpm which contains the
> > Node ISO image which can be used easily with oVirt Engine.
> > yum can be used to update this rpm and retrieve the latest oVirt Node
> > iso for easy consumption.
> > 
> > For some time we did not deliver Node for Engine in a wrapper rpm
> > because a lot of things have changed (see below for the full story).
> > 
> > To get this working again I've been cleaning up the repo and the
> > contained spec.
> > 
> > Th repo layout is now:
> > node-3.0 branch:
> >   Builds the base image from scratch
> > 
> > ovirt-3.4 branch:
> >   Builds the iso for Engine using edit-node and the base image
> > 
> >   Open issues: A repo file needs to be generated on each build which 
> >   contains all the relevant oVirt repositories.
> > 
> > Sandro, do you have an idea how we can retrieve all list of all relevant
> > oVirt repositories using some curl oneliner?
> 
> No, no curl onliner available for that.
> If you need one, we can provide it.

Yes, this would really help us.

I opened this ticket to track it:
https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/136

- fabian

> 
> > The repositories are needed by edit-node to pull in the dependencies of
> > ovirt-node-plugin-vdsm (vdsm, gluster, ...).
> > 
> > The changes are _slightly_ tested, and once they are in a better shape
> > we can update Jenkins to use these repos to build the image and rpm for
> > Engine.
> > 
> > 
> > Technical background story:
> > The problem was that the basic way of how the oVirt Node for Engine ISO
> > was build was dramatically changed.
> > 
> > Originally the vdsm packages were part of Node's build process.
> > You build the Node and it was usable with Engine.
> > 
> > Now - After we introduced plugins, vdsm was migrated into a plugin
> > (ovirt-node-plugin-vdsm) and the plugin is not part of Node's build
> > process. ISOs we build these days do not contain vdsm specific bits and
> > are called "base images".
> > So if you build Node these days, it is _not_ usable with Engine.
> > Don't Panic.
> > 
> > The ovirt-node-plugin-vdsm is added to the "base image" in a second step
> > using edit-node. This process is now used in ovirt-3.4 branch, where
> > also the spec file for the wrapper-rpm resides.
> > 
> > - fabian
> > 
> 
> 

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