[Engine-devel] Engine local configuration

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand at redhat.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 10:30:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Engine local configuration
> > > All we are saying is DEVELOPMENT=1 is the default, since the code
> > > is built differently for production, and installed accordingly.
> > > Additionally you may have more than one devel setup, for example
> > > for
> > > different versions. So unless you override something (such as
> > > keystore
> > > pass, jboss location) mvn -Pdep should simply work, and make XXX
> > > will
> > > ensure whatever you need to override is done properly.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > No, you miss the point.
> > I want to be able to have a full blown product installed for
> > development as well.
> > The only difference is the PREFIX and may be some other stuff I
> > don't
> > think of that are specific of development.
> > I put the DEVELOPMENT=1 to focus the discussion.
> > 
> > I should have written the following steps to be more clear:
> > $ OEHOME=$HOME/ovirt-engine-root
> > $ make PREFIX=$OEHOME
> > $ make PREFIX=$OEHOME DEVELOPMENT=1 install
> > $ cd ${OEHOME}
> > $ . ./ovirt-engine.vars
> > $ engine-setup
> > <snip>
> > $ sbin/engie-service.py start
> > 
> > We probably need more vars on the make install, such as JBOSS_HOME,
> > but the idea is that you have fully functional product in
> > development mode, including PKI and support scripts.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Alon
> 
> Alon,
> most universities today will not give you admin privileges.
> We must be able to download the code and run it without additional
> requirements. It is possible to run jboss with local configuration
> (per user). So we should minimize the restrictions and not impose
> new once. Running the installation script is nice to have, but
> should be completely optional. Especially if you'd like to see it
> being deployed in various distro's. So at least developers should
> be able to git clone, compile and run. Everything else is packaging.
> 

You don't need any admin to install at PREFIX=$HOME/ovirt-engine-root

We should make sure that we can run all components within PREFIX without root.

As far as I can tell, we do not actually need root access for 99% of the implementation, one of the trivial differences is to replace systemctl start/stop with direct script execution in non-root mode.

Alon