[Users] What is it going to take to get EL6 builds?

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 07/05/2012 07:02 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2012 5:05 PM, "Robert Middleswarth" <robert at middleswarth.net 
> <mailto:robert at middleswarth.net>> wrote:
> >
> > I know there are a few things that don't work under oVirt on EL6 but 
> there are unofficial builds out there and they seem to work pretty well.
> >
> > What is the major stopper from getting EL6 builds?  Is it just a 
> mater of getting patches submitted for building the spec files?  Is 
> there a need for EL 6 based slaves?  Is there a concern about the 
> features that don't work like Live Migration?
> >
> > I guess a good starting point is to build a todo list of what has to 
> be done.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert
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> Based on personal attempts to rebuild ovirt for EL6 the biggest hurdle 
> I ran into is build dependencies.
>
> Thanks to the help of Dreyou Im using the work around of a binary 
> download of Maven and packages from jpackage repo.  Ive built latest 
> vdsm without much issue and am setting up my mock environment to 
> rebuild the latest ovirt-engine release.
>
I bet that is why I am having so much trouble.  I installed Maven but am 
not using jpackage repo for the rest of Java

Thanks
Robert
>
> Before Dreyou's repo I spent considerable time attempting to rebuild 
> Fedora SRPMs in EL6 to meet all dependencies but there were numerous 
> circular dependency issues building maven2 in EL6.  This was before 
> 3.1 and have not attempted a full dependency build since.
>
> Id be interested in knowing what other challenges exist for an EL6 
> release and would like to help where I can.
>
> - Trey
>


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