[Engine-devel] Broken devel setup on Gentoo?

[Doron Fediuck]

On 01/01/2014 11:23 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
>> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:18:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Broken devel setup on Gentoo?
>>
>>
>> On 01/01/2014 10:57 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 10:31:07 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Broken devel setup on Gentoo?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/31/2013 08:10 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
>>>>>> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
>>>>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:17:40 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Broken devel setup on Gentoo?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An unrelated issue I noticed when moving from 3.3 branch to master I
>>>>>> re-built everything,
>>>>>> yet I was unable to login. I had to update the DB with a new password to
>>>>>> login.
>>>>>> I suspect theres another issue here.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I am unsure I follow, you cannot use the same prefix for both branches.
>>>>> What the exact sequence?
>>>> 1. Built everything on ovirt-3.3 branch.
>>>> => works well.
>>>>
>>>> 2. git checkout origin/master && git reset --hard origin/master && rm
>>>> -rf share bin etc usr var
>>>> 3. Cherry pick patch from gerrit
>>>> 4. make clean install-dev
>>>> 5. run setup
>>>>
>>>> => I'd expect db to be recreated. If not then we cannot login to the
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>> Are you removing the pki keys? the entire configuration? why not remove the
>>> entire PREFIX?
>>>
>>> Database will not re-created if already exist, there will be an attempt to
>>> upgrade it, and as you removed the pki keys the password is cannot be
>>> decrypted.
>>>
>>> If you remove PREFIX you should also drop/create database to start scratch,
>>> or just use another empty database when installing.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alon
>> I'm not using PREFIX.
>> What are the alternatives?
>>
> how come[1]?
>
> $ make clean install-dev PREFIX=$HOME/ovirt-engine
>
> so you are running it as root and install into /usr/local?
>
> the entire concept of devenv is to use it as non root and install to user accessible directory (aka PREFIX).
>
> if you want to start fresh (by removing the PREFIX) then you should also have fresh (empty) database. 
>
> Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev
>
> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=blob;f=README.developer;hb=HEAD#l70
I'm not using root.
There's a special user account which has ~/ovirt-engine including the
git repo inside.
So the prefix is the same as the git repo and removing it removes git...