[ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Federico Simoncelli]

----- 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?

I find being in fedora a way to keep the spec file and the rpm updated
and as clean as possible.

-- 
Federico