[Users] [Engine-devel] Migrating engine-setup to otopi

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:52:31AM -0400, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>
> > To: "Alex Lourie" <alourie at redhat.com>
> > Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:47:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] Migrating engine-setup to otopi
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
> > Alex Lourie <alourie at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > 1. Be able to port engine to other distributions.
> > > >
> > > > Really? Beside this topic I see hardcoded usernames in scripts...
> > > >
> > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12551/2/backend/manager/dbscripts/dbfunctions.sh,unified
> > >
> > > These usernames are not hard-coded. There are default values
> > > present which are kept for
> > > local installations, but with remote DB setup the user is prompted
> > > to provide a username
> > > of her/his own.
> >
> > Not everywhere are postgresql dirs owned by postgres, on some BSDs it
> > is
> > _postgresql.
>
> Right, as I said this is going away.
>
> I am porting this first to Gentoo, which is the most complex, then I
> will be able to provide debian based.

Would it be useful to start to provide an ovirt-overlay for this? I
already started https://github.com/ekohl/ovirt-overlay where I packaged
ovirt-shell and its dependencies (including ovirt-sdk-python). I'd be
happy to extend this with more packages based on the info available on
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt.