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From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken@redhat.com> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo@redhat.com>, devel@ovirt.org, fsimonce@redhat.com, dougsland@redhat.com Cc: "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske@mittwald.de>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> 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? I find being in fedora a way to keep the spec file and the rpm updated and as clean as possible. -- Federico