Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:58:29PM +0200, Doron Fediuck wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Well, it looks like we've hit our first distro-diversion. > > > > First of all, let's define the issues, and then see how we solve > > each one; > > > > 1. Dimitrije is referring to vdsm's init script (including > > vdsm-reg). > > > > 2. What Jared is referring to is relevant to: > > - Host installation process (AKA bootstrapping and registration) > > - vdsm operations on host networking > > > > I agree it will be better if we solve each issue using the same > > code for all distro's. Having said that, we need to see if it's > > an achievable task. > > > > Taking Dimitrije's issue as an example, we hit the first > > conflict; Gentoo is using OpenRC by default (and has some BSD-style > > leftovers), while RedHat and Fedora are using their SysV-style > > implementation, which confirms to LSB. Also, some Fedora services > > are moving to systemd implementation. Obviously these > > implementations > > are not trivial to bridge. So where Fedora's script will have > > "Required-Start:" > > Gentoo will use a depend() function (see vixie-cron as a sample). > > So unless we find a magical bridge for init standards, we'll have > > to have several init scripts, and each distro will use it's own > > script. We can try and generalize it, to make sure distor's > > with similar implementations use the same script. > > > > As for Jared's networking issues, I believe there's more room > > here to make the relevant code more flexible, by testing the needed > > files, and using what we find. Thus, we'll have all in the same > > codebase. You can start by taking a look at vdsm/netinfo.py in > > vdsm's git. > > And, as mentioned by Daniel Berrange, Vdsm should probably be changed > to > be using netcf to configure host networking. I'm not sure if Gentoo > has > netcf back-end, though. Actually we're thinking about NetworkManager, not netcf.

> > I'm sure that there are plenty of other Fedoraisms lurking in Vdsm. > We > would have to take them down one by one. > > Dan. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users