New gerrit repo needed

Doron Fediuck dfediuck at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 08:56:25 UTC 2012


On 09/02/12 10:53, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 10:38 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 02/09/2012 05:07 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can I get a new gerrit repo added for ovirt-node-iso?  An empty
>>> repo should be fine initially.
>>>
>>> The purpose of this repo is to package the ovirt-node iso image
>>> in an rpm for delivery.  Ideally, this could be done as a
>>> sub-package of ovirt-node, but there is a chicken and egg
>>> problem.  You need the ovirt-node rpm in order to generate the
>>> iso which you need to build the ovirt-node-iso rpm.  We also need
>>> to keep the generation of the ovirt-node rpm and the iso image in
>>> separate steps so we could create multiple images from a single
>>> ovirt-node rpm.  This would allow something like an update to a
>>> package that isn't ovirt-node to be included.  For example, if
>>> vdsm had a critical update, we need to be able to regenerate the
>>> ovirt-node iso image without have to rebuild the ovirt-node rpm.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
> 
>> I'm assuming the only issue is you want to keep the single package
>> per repo policy, rather than any technical/logistical issue with
>> managing the code? I have no problem creating it, it is same
>> project as far as i am concerned, just needs separation due to
>> packaging. let's give a day for comments in case someone has an
>> issue for some reason, and I'll create it if no objections. 
>> karsten/ofer/barak/doron/anyone -
>> thoughts/comments/issues/support?
> 
> +1 ... makes sense to me, too.
> 
It's simply a new project in current gerrit.ovort.org, which will create
a new git repo. I'm all for repo separation to minimize dangers of corruptions.
+1.
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/d

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