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

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 24/09/2014 09:44, Sven Kieske ha scritto:
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> 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 ?

Federico: as we checked a few minutes ago, it seems there's no problem in requiring qemu-kvm/qemu-img in the spec file.
Only issue is that if non rhev version is installed a manual "yum update" is required for moving to the rhevm version.


> Of course there was a problem, please follow the link in this very
> commit to the according bugzilla:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127763
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> 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.

Well, since the -rhev package is now available in 3.4, 3.5 and master repos it shouldn't be a PITA anymore.



> 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?
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