[Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

[Doron Fediuck]

On Monday 21 November 2011 19:12:36 Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Cc: "VDSM Project Development" <vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 3:13:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo
> > 
> > On Monday 21 November 2011 16:00:26 Doron Fediuck wrote:
> > > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:49:43 Mike Burns wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 07:42 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 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.
> > > 
> > Clarifying my cryptic typos- netcf has no proper support in Gentoo.
> > It will be helpful if vdsm takes a more generic approach.
> 
> Configuring the network is a difficult task. Taking a more generic
> approach means facing again the problems that NetworkManager found
> and resolved in the past.
> 
> Do you know any other (mature) project that is trying to fill in the
> gaps between the network configurations in the various distro?
> I'm worried that taking a generic approach we'll end up creating a
> small NetworkManager clone with a smaller scope (usable only for the
> vdsm tasks).
> 
> We could use our effort to improve NetworkManager where it's lacking
> of functionality/packaging. For example I've been waiting for the bridge
> support for a long time, I hope to see it soon.
> 
Federico,
Since I personally know the one who wrote most of the vdsm-ovirt/rhel 
integration bugs (not the code, just the bugs...) I'm fully aware of
network complexity, and the impact of supporting several distro's.

This is exactly why I asked for a /generic/ approach, which will
not pull in numerous packages which are distro or desktop-env specific.

Having said that, I can tell you that last night I did some more
investigations in Gentoo, and I was pleasantly surprised to see
the following:

emerge -DuNavt --with-bdeps=y --keep-going net-misc/networkmanager

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.4.0-r2  USE="bluetooth ppp -avahi -connection-sharing -dhclient -dhcpcd -doc -gnutls -nss -resolvconf" 1,634 kB
[ebuild  N     ]  net-misc/modemmanager-0.4  USE="policykit -doc -test" 435 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 2,069 kB

This means that network manager no longer pulls gnome-related
packages, which is very good news. If this is the case in other
distro's I think we can converge on this solution.

I guess we only need some input from Suse / Ubuntu people to
see if it works for them as well.
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