[ovirt-devel] [VDSM] Strange build requirements added lately

[Martin Sivak]

> Testing mom or testing vdsm? Maybe these tests are not relevant now that mom
> runs in separate process?

Those are API tests.

> Here we have a bigger problem - the version we require is not available
> for Fedora 22, practically breaking support on Fedora 22.
>
> Latest version in Fedora 22 is 0.5.1.
>
> Martin, can you build lastest mom for Fedora 22?

I can, but 0.5.3 should be available in the oVirt repositories for
F22. Are we still releasing vdsm in Koji?


Martin

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> [...]
>>> Needing a yaml package and python3-netaddr make sense, but I don't understand
>>> why we need these packages for building vdsm:
>>>
>>> - libvirt-python3 - we should not access libvirt using the tests
>>
>> True, but we use constants (e.g. error codes) in the tests, hence
>> the need for that package
>
> Makes sense.
>
>>
>>> - mom - we are not running mom on a development machine
>>
>> Similar, there are few tests (momTests.py/momPolicyTests.py) which import
>> the package for testing purposes
>
> Testing mom or testing vdsm? Maybe these tests are not relevant now that mom
> runs in separate process?
>
> Here we have a bigger problem - the version we require is not available
> for Fedora 22, practically breaking support on Fedora 22.
>
> Latest version in Fedora 22 is 0.5.1.
>
> Martin, can you build lastest mom for Fedora 22?
>
> Nir