[Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

[Jared Sutton]

I noticed the same things when installing on ArchLinux.  I also noticed
that vdsm is doing things like re-configuring the network configuration,
but it clearly uses redhat-specific methods (like modifying the files in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/).  I see two possible solutions:

1. Create different support scripts for different distros (not a great
solution, clearly).
2. Make the scripts as generic as possible, and use in-script logic to
determine the currently-running distro (take a look at VirtualBox's vboxweb
start-up script, for example; it has quite a bit of this type of logic).

For the network configuration issue, would it be realistic to rely on a
network abstraction layer, such as NetworkManager or Wicd, since they
operate across multiple distros?

Jared

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Dimitrije Zivkovic <dimitrije.ziv at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    after few hours of playing around with ovirt-node and following
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Ovirt_Quickstart guide, I've managed to get all
> the way to installing vdsm on gentoo server. At this point, it is not even
> the issue of creating the ebuild file for vdsm, the blocker for me was the
> following:
>
> - after compiling vdsm and installing it, order of files and install
> locations are clearly following redhat system
> - when starting vdsm by startup script (which is in /etc/rc.d/init.d,
> which, in turn, does not exists in Gentoo), from errors thrown at me I see
> that it is redhat startup script
>
> So, I will look through the code, when time allows, but if someone could
> help out by some info or advice, it would be appreciated... So far, I would
> start by porting /etc/init.d/functions from fedora and then continue to
> solve the problem with conf files being on different locations. Any
> thoughts on this? Is this the wa to go, in the first place?
>
> Dimitrije
>
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