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

[Daniel Helgenberger]

On 24.09.2014 10:57, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> Il 24/09/2014 09:44, Sven Kieske ha scritto:
>>
>> 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.
Indeed, I was about to complain in this thread myself ;) - Also, a 'yum
install qemu-kvm-rhev' might be more "ovirt-way" and works the same.
>> 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.
> 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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