Re: [Users] [Engine-devel] Migrating engine-setup to otopi

From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt(a)kohlvanwijngaarden.nl&gt; To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt;, engine-devel(a)ovirt.org, users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:06:01 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [Users] Migrating engine-setup to otopi On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:52:31AM -0400, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt; > > To: "Alex Lourie" <alourie(a)redhat.com&gt; > > Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org, users(a)ovirt.org > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:47:12 PM > > Subject: Re: [Users] Migrating engine-setup to otopi > > > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:06:04 -0400 (EDT) > > Alex Lourie <alourie(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > > > 1. Be able to port engine to other distributions. > > > > > > > > Really? Beside this topic I see hardcoded usernames in > > > > scripts... > > > > > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12551/2/backend/manager/dbscripts/dbfunctions... > > > > > > These usernames are not hard-coded. There are default values > > > present which are kept for > > > local installations, but with remote DB setup the user is > > > prompted > > > to provide a username > > > of her/his own. > > > > Not everywhere are postgresql dirs owned by postgres, on some > > BSDs it > > is > > _postgresql. > > Right, as I said this is going away. > > I am porting this first to Gentoo, which is the most complex, then > I > will be able to provide debian based. Would it be useful to start to provide an ovirt-overlay for this? I already started https://github.com/ekohl/ovirt-overlay where I packaged ovirt-shell and its dependencies (including ovirt-sdk-python). I'd be happy to extend this with more packages based on the info available on http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt.