Re: [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: devel(a)ovirt.org, dougsland(a)redhat.com, "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske(a)mittwald.de&gt;, "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:00:20 AM Subject: Re: Building vdsm within Fedora Il 24/09/2014 08:53, Federico Simoncelli ha scritto: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt;, devel(a)ovirt.org, >> fsimonce(a)redhat.com, dougsland(a)redhat.com >> Cc: "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske(a)mittwald.de&gt;, "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:21:18 PM >> Subject: Building vdsm within Fedora >> >> Since Vdsm was open-sourced, it was built and deployed via >> Fedora. >> >> Recently [http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31214] vdsm introduced a spec-file >> dependency onf qemu-kvm-rhev, and considered to backport it to the >> ovirt-3.4 brach. >> >> Requiring qemu-kvm-rhev, which is not part of Fedora's EPEL6 branch, >> violates Fedora's standards. >> >> So basically we have two options: >> >> 1. Revert the qemu-kvm-rhev dependency. >> 2. Drop vdsm from EPEL6 (or completely from Fedora); ship Vdsm only >> within the oVirt repositories. >> >> A third option would be to have one rpm, with qemu-kvm-rhev, shipped in >> ovirt, and another without it - shipped in Fedora. I find this overly >> complex and confusing. > > I think that until now (centos6) we were using qemu-kvm/qemu-img in the > spec file and then the ovirt repository was distributing qemu-*-rhev > from: > > http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-snapshot/rpm/el6/x86_64/ > > It this not possible with centos7? Any problem with that? We're shipping qemu-kvm-rhev on 3.4, 3.5 and master for EL6 and EL7. The issue is that if you don't enable ovirt, epel fails repository closure.