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

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:06:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [Users] Migrating engine-setup to otopi
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:52:31AM -0400, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- 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.
> 

Working on this[1] for some time, until I realized we need to rewrite the whole packaging...

I will update you when I have something working.
The gentoo wiki instruction should simply go aware, as it is manual installation.

[1] https://github.com/alonbl/ovirt-overlay