Re: [ovirt-users] Compiling oVirt for Debian.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Leni, welcome to the oVirt community! > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi < > lenikmutungi(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > > -- > > SANDRO BONAZZOLA > > ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D > > Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> > <https://red.ht/sig> > TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- Didi