[Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

[Doron Fediuck]

On Monday 21 November 2011 14:49:43 Mike Burns wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 07:42 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:58:29PM +0200, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > > Well, it looks like we've hit our first distro-diversion.
> > > > 
> > > > First of all, let's define the issues, and then see how we solve
> > > > each one;
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Dimitrije is referring to vdsm's init script (including
> > > > vdsm-reg).
> > > > 
> > > > 2. What Jared is referring to is relevant to:
> > > > - Host installation process (AKA bootstrapping and registration)
> > > > - vdsm operations on host networking
> > > > 
> > > > I agree it will be better if we solve each issue using the same
> > > > code for all distro's. Having said that, we need to see if it's
> > > > an achievable task.
> > > > 
> > > > Taking Dimitrije's issue as an example, we hit the first
> > > > conflict; Gentoo is using OpenRC by default (and has some BSD-style
> > > > leftovers), while RedHat and Fedora are using their SysV-style
> > > > implementation, which confirms to LSB. Also, some Fedora services
> > > > are moving to systemd implementation. Obviously these
> > > > implementations
> > > > are not trivial to bridge. So where Fedora's script will have
> > > > "Required-Start:"
> > > > Gentoo will use a depend() function (see vixie-cron as a sample).
> > > > So unless we find a magical bridge for init standards, we'll have
> > > > to have several init scripts, and each distro will use it's own
> > > > script. We can try and generalize it, to make sure distor's
> > > > with similar implementations use the same script.
> > > > 
> > > > As for Jared's networking issues, I believe there's more room
> > > > here to make the relevant code more flexible, by testing the needed
> > > > files, and using what we find. Thus, we'll have all in the same
> > > > codebase. You can start by taking a look at vdsm/netinfo.py in
> > > > vdsm's git.
> > > 
> > > And, as mentioned by Daniel Berrange, Vdsm should probably be changed
> > > to
> > > be using netcf to configure host networking. I'm not sure if Gentoo
> > > has
> > > netcf back-end, though.
> > 
> > Actually we're thinking about NetworkManager, not netcf.
> 
> Does NetworkManager have an api or library level package that doesn't
> pull in all the UI bits?  ovirt-node does not currently include
> NetworkManager packages at all and we don't want to pull anything that
> is going to pull in X or another UI.
> 
> Mike

+1
NetworkManager pulls in gnome, while it's net being used in many cases,
especially in servers.
As for netcf in Gentoo, there's not substantial support which will make
it easy to work with.

> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm sure that there are plenty of other Fedoraisms lurking in Vdsm.
> > > We
> > > would have to take them down one by one.
> > > 
> > > Dan.

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