[ovirt-devel] ovirt-guest-agent

[Nicholas Kesick]

> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] ovirt-guest-agent
> From: michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:05:59 +0200
> CC: vfeenstr at redhat.com; infra at ovirt.org; devel at ovirt.org; cybertimber2000 at hotmail.com
> To: sbonazzo at redhat.com
> 
> 
> 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.
> It would be nice if it could be shipped again - my version of the wiki article had instructions for two use cases - one where a Fedora VM could connect to the Fedora repos to get the agent, and one use case where the VM does not have internet access. It seemed like a good workaround until we can see if the *nix agents can be added to a guest agent CD. For 3.5 I think Lev is targeting just Windows systems. 
> 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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