[ovirt-devel] python-blivet requirement not available on el6

[Balamurugan Arumugam]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>, barumuga at redhat.com, sabose at redhat.com
> Cc: "Yaniv Bronheim" <ybronhei at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 6:28:20 PM
> Subject: Re: python-blivet requirement not available on el6
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> > Hi, looks like vdsm added a dependency not available on EPEL 6.
> > 
> > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/repos_master_check-closure_merged/DISTRIBUTION=centos6/388/console
> > 
> > 
> > package: vdsm-4.17.0-283.gite127687.el6.x86_64 from check-custom-el6
> >   unresolved deps:
> >      python-blivet
> > package: vdsm-4.17.0-292.git0b55852.el6.x86_64 from check-custom-el6
> >   unresolved deps:
> >      python-blivet
> > 
> > Can you share some details about this requirement?
> > Is anybody working with epel maintainer to get this in el6?
> 
> I'm adding Bala and Sahina for more authoritative response.
> (which should have happened before having merged commit 7e49db74d)
> 

We would like to have the feature[1] which requires blivet for have brick management.  The brick management involves to list disks/storages, creating bricks by (create LVM PVs + VG + thin-pool + LV) etc.

My bad that I haven't noticed very closely that python-blivet was added into vdsm than vdsm-gluster package in commit 7e49db74d.


> On the mean while, I've added http://gerrit.ovirt.org/37010
> to sweep the problem under the carpet.
> 
> Please rebase on top of master to obtain it.
> 

Regards,
Bala


[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterHostDiskManagement