[ovirt-devel] ovirt-guest-agent

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Jul 11, 2014, at 09:17 , Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:

> Il 11/07/2014 09:12, Vinzenz Feenstra ha scritto:
>> On 07/11/2014 09:02 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> looking at http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/
>>> I see that for ovirt-guest-agent there's only the following job: http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/ovirt-guest-agent_master_gerrit/
>>> This means that ovirt-guest-agent is not built nightly neither for master nor for stable and it's not published neither in nightly snapshot nor in
>>> official releases.
>> Yeah it never has been built nightly.
>>> I see that ovirt-guest-agent is shipped within Fedora and EPEL: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=15434
>>> so I suppose official release are shipped there.
>> Yes
>>> Do we need nightly builds?
>> It would be great if we would have nightly builds. Or at some trigger after merges, as the guest agent has not such a high volume of patches, nightly
>> might be overkill, at least for now.
> 
> Ok, I'll open a ticket for that.
> 
>>> Also I see that http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Fedora refers to obsolete layout / releases and the package is not shipped
>>> within oVirt repo for above considerations and should be updated accordingly.
>> True, and now looking at it, I have to say that I am surprised that the guest agent builds aren't included in the ovirt releases anymore. Usually they
>> were including the latest koji builds. (At least from my knowledge) that does not seem to be the case anymore. when looking at:
>> http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.4/rpm/fc20/noarch/ for example.
> 
> It's because RC are composed from nightly and if package is not in nightly it's not in the RC and then not in the final release.
> Well, not really an issue since official release are available in official fedora and epel repo, this also avoid rpm duplication.

and since the guest agent is supposed to go to the guest instead of being installed as part of the ovirt installation it kind of makes sense like this indeed:)

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