Re: [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora
Il 24/09/2014 00:21, Nir Soffer ha scritto:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>, devel(a)ovirt.org,
fsimonce(a)redhat.com, dougsland(a)redhat.com
> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:21:18 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] 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:
4 options...
>
> 1. Revert the qemu-kvm-rhev dependency.
Why did we merge a package which is not available on all supported platforms?
> 2. Drop vdsm from EPEL6 (or completely from Fedora); ship Vdsm only
> within the oVirt repositories.
3. Package qemu-kvm-rhev in Fedora
in EPEL. But if you're going to add it to EPEL please ensure it doesn't violate
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
This is the root cause, lets fix it.
4. Until 3 is fixed, require qemu-kvm-rhev where it exists,
otherwise on qemu-kvm.
Which is basically 1 only for the fedora packaging, keeping the dep on ovirt packaging.
> I favor option 2. The Fedora deployment platform served us well for a
> long time, but now that ovirt is maturing, we no longer need it for
> building vdsm. This has the added benefit of removing the need to pass
> through Fedora's ghastly gateway when adding a Vdsm dependency.
This is the wrong direction. We want ovirt in all distributions. You suggest
to have it in no distribution :-)
I tend to agree with Nir.
> Sandro, what should be done in order to build Vdsm by ovirt,
occording
> to the most up-to-date tag in a stable branch?
currently we're using mock for building packages whenever we can use it.
for vdsm I created a yaml job here: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/32512
once it's merged you can build from git tag.
> Does anybody object this? If no one does, we would stop updating Vdsm in
> Fedora, and obsolete it in the future.
I do
Nir
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