[ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Federico Simoncelli]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce at redhat.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org, dougsland at redhat.com, "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske at mittwald.de>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:00:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Building vdsm within Fedora
> 
> Il 24/09/2014 08:53, Federico Simoncelli ha scritto:
> > ----- 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: "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske at mittwald.de>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:21:18 PM
> >> Subject: 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:
> >>
> >> 1. Revert the qemu-kvm-rhev dependency.
> >> 2. Drop vdsm from EPEL6 (or completely from Fedora); ship Vdsm only
> >>    within the oVirt repositories.
> >>
> >> A third option would be to have one rpm, with qemu-kvm-rhev, shipped in
> >> ovirt, and another without it - shipped in Fedora. I find this overly
> >> complex and confusing.
> > 
> > I think that until now (centos6) we were using qemu-kvm/qemu-img in the
> > spec file and then the ovirt repository was distributing qemu-*-rhev
> > from:
> > 
> >  http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-snapshot/rpm/el6/x86_64/
> > 
> > It this not possible with centos7? Any problem with that?
> 
> We're shipping qemu-kvm-rhev on 3.4, 3.5 and master for EL6 and EL7.
> The issue is that if you don't enable ovirt, epel fails repository closure.

You probably missed the first part "we were using qemu-kvm/qemu-img in
the spec file". In that case you won't fail in any requirement.

Basically the question is: was there any problem on centos6 before
committing http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31214 ?

If not, why don't we do the same for centos7?

-- 
Federico