[Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:58:29PM +0200, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Well, it looks like we've hit our first distro-diversion.
> 
> First of all, let's define the issues, and then see how we solve each one;
> 
> 1. Dimitrije is referring to vdsm's init script (including vdsm-reg).
> 
> 2. What Jared is referring to is relevant to:
> - Host installation process (AKA bootstrapping and registration)
> - vdsm operations on host networking
> 
> I agree it will be better if we solve each issue using the same
> code for all distro's. Having said that, we need to see if it's
> an achievable task.
> 
> Taking Dimitrije's issue as an example, we hit the first
> conflict; Gentoo is using OpenRC by default (and has some BSD-style
> leftovers), while RedHat and Fedora are using their SysV-style
> implementation, which confirms to LSB. Also, some Fedora services
> are moving to systemd implementation. Obviously these implementations
> are not trivial to bridge. So where Fedora's script will have "Required-Start:"
> Gentoo will use a depend() function (see vixie-cron as a sample).
> So unless we find a magical bridge for init standards, we'll have
> to have several init scripts, and each distro will use it's own
> script. We can try and generalize it, to make sure distor's
> with similar implementations use the same script.
> 
> As for Jared's networking issues, I believe there's more room
> here to make the relevant code more flexible, by testing the needed
> files, and using what we find. Thus, we'll have all in the same
> codebase. You can start by taking a look at vdsm/netinfo.py in
> vdsm's git.

And, as mentioned by Daniel Berrange, Vdsm should probably be changed to
be using netcf to configure host networking. I'm not sure if Gentoo has
netcf back-end, though.

I'm sure that there are plenty of other Fedoraisms lurking in Vdsm. We
would have to take them down one by one.

Dan.