Hey, IIUIC host-deploy is currently installing some packages manually: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-host-deploy.git;a=blob;f=src/plug... Can't these dependencies moved to vdsm - or if not - can't they be moved to a ovirt-host package? Then we'd have all package related informations in one place. I find it odd that host-deploy is taking care of package installation, imo it should be sufficient to install a single package and have a host ready. host-deploy can then focus on just configuring the existing packages. Thoughts?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 05:36:35PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > Hey, > > > > IIUIC host-deploy is currently installing some packages manually: > > > > > > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-host-deploy.git;a=blob;f=src/plug... > > > > Can't these dependencies moved to vdsm - or if not - can't they be > > moved to a ovirt-host package? > > Then we'd have all package related informations in one place. > > > > I find it odd that host-deploy is taking care of package installation, > > imo it should be sufficient to install a single package and have a > > host ready. > > > > host-deploy can then focus on just configuring the existing packages. > > > > Thoughts? > > Everything that vdsm requires should be explicitly expressed in > vdsm.spec. vdsm-cli not being their was a bug. If there's anything else > missing, it should be added. > > However, we may have softer requirement: qemu-kvm-tool is nice to have > for deep debugging, but not reallly necessary. In the future, I'd like > ovirt-host-deploy to conditionally not pull iscsi packages if the > datacenter does not require it. Thus I prefer keeping things as they > are, even though it means that ovirt-node largely duplicates the list of > packages from ovirt-host-deploy. > Just a reminder that ovirt-host-deploy is not installed on the target host, it's just executed there through ssh after having it copied there as a tarball. So the installation of the packages can't be done in a different manner. On Node, you should have ovirt-host-deploy-offline installed: it should pull in all needed deps without installing anything else "manually".