[Engine-devel] [Feedback required][host-deploy] Fedora-19 misses tar at minimal setup

Hello All, I would like to receive feedback regarding how we should cope with a state presented to use by Fedora. Fedora-19 minimal setup does not install tar utility which is required to deploy files during the host-deploy process (Hosts->Add Host). I guess because of 2.8M in size (including translations) -- a standard commonly used utility was removed. There are two alternatives : 1. Instruct users who are using minimal installations to manually install tar utility just like they configure repository, dns, etc.. Benefit: simplicity. Benefit: use standard tools. Benefit: lower payload to transmit. Drawback: require tar at destination machine. 2. Do not use tar but self extracting python script, a patch is ready[1]. Benefit: ability to deploy environment in which tar is missing. Drawback: non standard tool at destination machine. Drawback: complexity within our code. [[[ There was 3rd alternative, using python tar module to deploy tar. However, there is a bug in that module when processing last block if empty. This is edge condition but happened to at least one of the users and I could reproduce it. ]]] Regards, Alon Bar-Lev [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/17295/