9:45 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
Hi Leni, welcome to the oVirt community!
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi <
lenikmutungi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am trying to install oVirt on Debian. So far I've managed to install
> a good chunk of the dependencies.
Nice to see interest in getting oVirt on Debian! I'm adding Milan Zamal
who was looking into getting vdsm running on Debian.
> However I haven't been able to
> install otopi, ovirt-host-deploy, ovirt-js-dependencies,
> ovirt-setup-lib since Debian has no packages for these. With the
> exception of otopi (whose build instructions I was unable to make
> sense of on GitHub),
> everything else is to be gotten from Fedora/EPEL repos.
>
Please note that otopi is not supporting Debian yet.
It's missing support for the packaging system used by Debian. It currently
support only yum and dnf package managers.
Being ovirt-host-deploy and ovirt-setup-lib depending on otopi, you'll
need to work on otopi code first.
Adding to otopi support for apt/dpkg is indeed interesting and useful, but
imo isn't mandatory for a first milestone. Not having an apt packager will
simply mean you can't install/update packages using otopi, but other things
should work. Notably, you won't be able to use engine-setup for upgrades,
at least not the way it's done with yum and versionlock.
>
> I had thought of using alien to convert from rpm to deb, but
> apparently the recommended thing is to compile from source, since
> using alien can lead to a complex version of dependency hell.
>
> I can download WildFly from source, though again the recommended
> procedure is to install ovirt-engine-wildfly and
> ovirt-wildfly-overlay.
>
I would suggest to get in touch with Wildfly community about having
wildfly packaged for Debian.
>
> Any assistance in tracking down the source code of the above packages
> so that I can install them is appreciated.
>
I think that all of them are maintained on gerrit.ovirt.org, and most have
mirrors on github.com/ovirt.
If you haven't yet, you might want to check also:
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/engine/engine-development-en...
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/
The engine used to work on gentoo in the past, although I do not think
anyone tried that in the last 1.5 years, so the following is not up-to-date
or working, but can still give you some ideas:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt
Good luck and best regards,
> --
> - Warm regards
> Leni Kadali Mutungi
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