[ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org, fsimonce at redhat.com, dougsland at redhat.com
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:21:18 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora
> 
> Since Vdsm was open-sourced, it was built and deployed via
> Fedora.
> 
> Recently [http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31214] vdsm introduced a spec-file
> dependency onf qemu-kvm-rhev, and considered to backport it to the
> ovirt-3.4 brach.
> 
> Requiring qemu-kvm-rhev, which is not part of Fedora's EPEL6 branch,
> violates Fedora's standards.
> 
> So basically we have two options:

4 options...

> 
> 1. Revert the qemu-kvm-rhev dependency.

Why did we merge a package which is not available on all supported platforms?

> 2. Drop vdsm from EPEL6 (or completely from Fedora); ship Vdsm only
>    within the oVirt repositories.

3. Package qemu-kvm-rhev in Fedora

This is the root cause, lets fix it.

4. Until 3 is fixed, require qemu-kvm-rhev where it exists,
   otherwise on qemu-kvm.

> I favor option 2. The Fedora deployment platform served us well for a
> long time, but now that ovirt is maturing, we no longer need it for
> building vdsm. This has the added benefit of removing the need to pass
> through Fedora's ghastly gateway when adding a Vdsm dependency.

This is the wrong direction. We want ovirt in all distributions. You suggest
to have it in no distribution :-)

> Does anybody object this? If no one does, we would stop updating Vdsm in
> Fedora, and obsolete it in the future.

I do

Nir