[ovirt-devel] [RFI][ACTION REQUIRED] Dropping NoVNC feature on 3.6

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 07/01/2015 15:50, Sandro Bonazzola ha scritto:
> Il 22/12/2014 18:29, Simone Tiraboschi ha scritto:
>> Hi All,
>> two days ago novnc rpm has been retired from EPEL-6 [1]. We have a dependencies from it and some user is already complaining he cannot install oVirt 3.5.0 on Centos 6.6.
>>
>> The reason seams a broken deps on openstack-nova-novncproxy-0.4-2.el6.noarch [2]
>>
>> [1] - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/novnc/
>> [2] - http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/novnc.git/commit/?h=el6
>>
>> What should we do?
>> a. include and maintain it on our repo
>> b. find somebody else to maintain on EPEL-6
>> c. release the dependencies if not really needed
> 
> Bringing this up again.
> As said, novnc has been dropped from EPEL 6 as obsolete.
> Looking at koji[1], it looks that nobody is actively maintaining the Fedora and the EPEL 7 package since it's still in version 0.4 there while
> upstream is now on 0.5.1[2].
> 
> We need to consider:
> 1) taking ownership of EPEL and Fedora packages and keep it maintained so we can keep NoVNC feature.
> 2) package it ourselves inside oVirt repo for our needs only
> 3) drop NoVNC feature[3]
> 
> In 3.5 zstream it seams we have no choice but go with 2 on EL6 package.
> For 3.6 we must decide what to do.

novnc is going to be un-retired from epel 6: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177290#c6


> 
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=14099
> [2] https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/releases
> [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/noVNC_console
> 
>>
>> ciao,
>> Simone
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