[ovirt-users] Compiling oVirt for Debian.

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi Leni, welcome to the oVirt community!
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi <
> lenikmutungi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I am trying to install oVirt on Debian. So far I've managed to install
>> a good chunk of the dependencies.
>
>
> Nice to see interest in getting oVirt on Debian! I'm adding Milan Zamal
> who was looking into getting vdsm running on Debian.
>
>
>
>> However I haven't been able to
>> install otopi, ovirt-host-deploy, ovirt-js-dependencies,
>> ovirt-setup-lib since Debian has no packages for these. With the
>> exception of otopi (whose build instructions I was unable to make
>> sense of on GitHub),
>> everything else is to be gotten from Fedora/EPEL repos.
>>
>
>
> Please note that otopi is not supporting Debian yet.
> It's missing support for the packaging system used by Debian. It currently
> support only yum and dnf package managers.
> Being ovirt-host-deploy and ovirt-setup-lib depending on otopi, you'll
> need to work on otopi code first.
>

Adding to otopi support for apt/dpkg is indeed interesting and useful, but
imo isn't mandatory for a first milestone. Not having an apt packager will
simply mean you can't install/update packages using otopi, but other things
should work. Notably, you won't be able to use engine-setup for upgrades,
at least not the way it's done with yum and versionlock.


>
>
>>
>> I had thought of using alien to convert from rpm to deb, but
>> apparently the recommended thing is to compile from source, since
>> using alien can lead to a complex version of dependency hell.
>>
>> I can download WildFly from source, though again the recommended
>> procedure is to install ovirt-engine-wildfly and
>> ovirt-wildfly-overlay.
>>
>
> I would suggest to get in touch with Wildfly community about having
> wildfly packaged for Debian.
>
>
>>
>> Any assistance in tracking down the source code of the above packages
>> so that I can install them is appreciated.
>>
>
I think that all of them are maintained on gerrit.ovirt.org, and most have
mirrors on github.com/ovirt.

If you haven't yet, you might want to check also:

http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/engine/engine-development-environment/
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/

The engine used to work on gentoo in the past, although I do not think
anyone tried that in the last 1.5 years, so the following is not up-to-date
or working, but can still give you some ideas:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt

Good luck and best regards,


>
>> --
>> - Warm regards
>> Leni Kadali Mutungi
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