Re: [Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:56:39 AM
Subject: [Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive
Hello,
I'm very slowly working to make ovirt-engine running on a BSD system.
My problem is that I do it for fun and as my time resources are not
big
I could not choose building ovirt-engine from sources as it would
push
me to "port" (make packages) for all java dependencies. Yes, during
build maven cannot download Internet and build dependencies (for
security reasons).
Would be possible to have (another) distribution archive of
ovirt-engine which would be OS/distro-independent, so I could just
extract and copy it to filesystem for local jboss? (RPM packages can
be
extracted with 'rpm2cpio' but their owners decided to make life very
complicated [many symlinks etc.]).
OS/distro-independent distribution archive (.zip, .tgz) would make
life
much easiers for people wanting to have ovirt-engine running on a
non-RPM based Linux distro or on a BSD/Solaris system.
jbelka
So I guess you can download rpms from the internet and not maven artifacts...
What is the difference between the two?
Building using maven will prepare a full distribution exactly as you need, you just need
to build it in a computer that is connected to the internet and then wrap up the resources
and transfer it into the internal network.
Execute:
$ make
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/ovirt-engine-root
Regardless, porting the application to different distribution requires more work as the
startup service and setup environment are somewhat redhat/fedora specific.
Of course help will be appreciate, we are planning to solve the setup issue by rewriting
it to match otopi infrastructure it will be one step closer to be able to customize it to
different distributions.
Alon