[ovirt-devel] [RFE] Add ovirt-engine-filesystem sub-package

[Vojtech Szocs]

Hi,

for now, ovirt-engine-dashboard spec file [1] contains

  Requires: ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal >= 4.0.2

[1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine-dashboard.git;a=blob;f=packaging/spec.in;hb=HEAD

Dashboard RPM needs to create files (symlinks) in

  /usr/share/ovirt-engine/ui-plugins

directory, which is owned by `backend` sub-pkg, however
the Requires declaration is for `webadmin-portal` sub-pkg
to indicate relationship with WebAdmin UI (since Dashboard
is technically a UI plugin).

The downside of current approach is having dependency on
specific sub-pkg just for the sake of putting some files
into above directory within Dashboard's %install section.

But I'm not an expert on RPM packaging / guidelines etc.
so I just wanted to clarify the motivation behind this.

Vojtech


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 4:58:18 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] [RFE] Add ovirt-engine-filesystem sub-package
> 
> Hi,
> while developing ovirt-engine-dashboard it has been raised the issue that
> just for having ovirt-engine directories in place on the filesystem, the
> whole engine has to be required.
> 
> Some of the directories currently owned by ovirt-engine package and its
> subpackages are used also by other projects. In order to provide them
> whitout installing the whole engine a new sub package is needed, let's call
> it ovirt-engine-filesystem.
> 
> There are several example of this approach in Fedora, to see them:
> $ dnf list "*filesystem*"
> 
> A bug has been opened to track this RFE[1] and a patch has been submitted
> some time ago[2]
> 
> We didn't reach an agreement on creating the sub package or not, major
> objection was:
> " is ok for the whole distribution but for us this is an overkill"
> 
> Following Open Decision Framework, I'd like to get some more feedback from
> others since generally seems to be a good idea but I'd like to understand if
> this may cause issues to other developers / projects and why it's considered
> an overkill.
> 
> In Fedora packaging guidelines[3], the topic is covered by "File and
> Directory Ownership" section.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333880
> [2] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/57271
> [3]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership
> 
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