[ovirt-devel] Progress report on Vdsm Debian packaging

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> I made progress with Debian packaging of Vdsm.  We have all the
> supporting packages (cpopen, ioprocess, mom, pthreading, safelease,
> sanlock) in Debian now.  I took over maintenance of sanlock Debian
> package, updated it and made a lot of fixes, including preparing the
> previously unavailable python-sanlock package.
>

Thanks for your effort. I think that porting Vdsm and its dependencies
would help make the code cleaner and more robust.

> As for Vdsm itself, the package can be installed now and Vdsm can be
> started.  It doesn't work with Engine, which is no big surprise.  We
> can't simply reinstall a Debian host from Engine, so we need to find
> some way how to initialize the host properly.

Sorry I do not understand what's currently breaking. Can you add a
debian host to Engine? Does it show as up? Anything dubious in vdsm.log?


> And it's likely there are
> distribution specific pieces inside Vdsm and elsewhere.

Of course there are. But we'd like to to find an kill them, one at a
time.

> 
> All the package sources, including not yet uploaded Vdsm package, are
> available on http://git.debian.org .
> 
> How you can help:
> 
> - Obviously, we need to make Vdsm hosts working, so any help in this
>   area is welcome.
> 
> - Reviewing and testing Vdsm Debian package (without actually using it)
>   is also very helpful, I'm sure there are things to fix or improve.
> 
> - There are some Lintian warnings in the packages, fixing them would be
>   nice.
> 
> - We should also review Debian patches in the packages, decide what
>   should be changed upstream and report it.
> 
> - You can help with anything else you consider useful.