[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske at mittwald.de>
> To: devel at ovirt.org, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:44:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Building vdsm within Fedora
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/09/14 09:13, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> Of course there was a problem, please follow the link in this very
> commit to the according bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127763
> 
> In short: you can not use live snapshots without this updated spec file.
> 
> And it's a PITA to install this package by hand, you must track
> it's versions yourself etc pp. you basically lose all the stuff
> a proper spec file gives you.
> 
> 
> PS: I also don't get the "we want to get vdsm in every distribution"
> a) it was never in any distro, it was in epel, which is a third party
> repository anyway, so you can just provide it via ovirt repo imho.
> b) no one packages vdsm for debian, ubuntu, gentoo, arch, suse,
> $nameyourdistro or I completely missed it, so why treat fedora
> in a special way? Don't misunderstand me, it would be cool if you
> have packages for every distro, or even bsd based stuff, but I think
> this is still a long way.
> c) will anyone use vdsm without ovirt? is this even possible?
> so imho you need ovirt repos anyway?

People think that distribution is monolithic.
While in fact most, including fedora, are modular.

Alon