[Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:56:39 AM
> Subject: [Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm very slowly working to make ovirt-engine running on a BSD system.
> My problem is that I do it for fun and as my time resources are not
> big
> I could not choose building ovirt-engine from sources as it would
> push
> me to "port" (make packages) for all java dependencies. Yes, during
> build maven cannot download Internet and build dependencies (for
> security reasons).
> 
> Would be possible to have (another) distribution archive of
> ovirt-engine which would be OS/distro-independent, so I could just
> extract and copy it to filesystem for local jboss? (RPM packages can
> be
> extracted with 'rpm2cpio' but their owners decided to make life very
> complicated [many symlinks etc.]).
> 
> OS/distro-independent distribution archive (.zip, .tgz) would make
> life
> much easiers for people wanting to have ovirt-engine running on a
> non-RPM based Linux distro or on a BSD/Solaris system.
> 
> jbelka

So I guess you can download rpms from the internet and not maven artifacts...

What is the difference between the two?

Building using maven will prepare a full distribution exactly as you need, you just need to build it in a computer that is connected to the internet and then wrap up the resources and transfer it into the internal network.

Execute:
$ make
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/ovirt-engine-root

Regardless, porting the application to different distribution requires more work as the startup service and setup environment are somewhat redhat/fedora specific.

Of course help will be appreciate, we are planning to solve the setup issue by rewriting it to match otopi infrastructure it will be one step closer to be able to customize it to different distributions.

Alon