[node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node

[Alon Bar-Lev]

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> From: "Ryan Barry" <phresus at gmail.com>
> To: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 5:33:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node
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> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:16:38 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Barak Azulay < bazulay at redhat.com >
> > To: Fabian Deutsch < fabiand at redhat.com >
> > Cc: arch at ovirt.org , Douglas Landgraf < dlandgra at redhat.com >, node-devel <
> > node-devel at ovirt.org >
> > Subject: Re: [node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node
> 
> > Any idea why ?
> 
> > The only thing I can think off is that we are probably doing something
> > wrong.
> 
> For my part, because knowing what it's based on allows me to pick based upon
> feature sets and known compatibility with addons. I know that a Fedora-based
> image will support nested virt if I want to install that VDSM hook. And
> CentOS will support Dell's monitoring tools.
> 
> Building from scratch with libvirt and busybox, even if hyperbolic, would
> make adding plugins, vendor tools, or anything else exceptionally
> problematic unless we were to reinvent RPM or an oVirt-specific VIB. Debian
> stable presents some of the same problems.

vdsm plugins are not supported on ovirt-node as far as I know.

anyway, I use this example to demonstrate how much it is not black box as people argue.

for the record, there is nothing to be re-invented, rpm is not a tool suitable for creating embedded solution, open embedded or plain cross compile image are valid. rpm or any package management solution is <somewhat> good for dynamic system, which is not the case in ovirt-node, as image is static once released.

> 
> We may be able to get away with an EL7-based build only until it diverges too
> far from Fedora, at least, but I can't help but see this as a temporary
> solution.

there is already rhel 7 beta, and I do not see any reason to start porting before it stabilize and waste resources on fedora, but you have this as a base for development instead of fedora if someone really like.

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