[Users] Ubuntu/Debian ovirt-guest-agent

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 12:36 +0800, Zhou Zheng Sheng wrote:
> Hi René,
> 
> You are correct. I add python-apt as a recommend dependency package and
> upload the package again for Ubuntu and Debian. I didn't notice the
> problem because I have other packages in my test machine which depend on
> python-apt. Thanks.


No problem.

Btw, are you (or anyone else) working on getting the guest agent into
official Debian/Ubuntu repositories?
Your packages are working really well, so it should be not to hard to
get them into official repos...


> 
> on 2013/09/16 21:37, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:14 +0800, Zhou Zheng Sheng wrote:
> >> Hi Jakub,
> >>
> >> on 2013/09/10 21:52, Jakub Bittner wrote:
> >>> Hello Zhou Zheng Sheng,
> >>>
> >>> I tested your ovirt-guest-agent PPA which you provided and it works on
> >>> Ubuntu Precise (12.04) as expected, but I can not install it on Debian
> >>> Wheezy because that package needs upstart-job from Ubuntu which is not
> >>> in Debian...
> >>> Would you be so kind and provide even Debian packages on your PPA? :-)
> >>> I dont know if sysvinit style file for launching daemon is included by
> >>> oVirt.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you.
> >>>
> >>> Jakub Bittner
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Users mailing list
> >>> Users at ovirt.org
> >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >>>
> >>
> >> Two good news.
> >>
> >> Developers fixed the bug in latest master, so I updated the
> >> ovirt-guest-agent package for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring) to 1.0.8. This
> >> package should be OK to use with 12.04 (Precise) as well.
> >>
> >> I also wrote a Debian specific SysV init script for the guest agent.I
> >> tested in my Debian Wheezy guest. There is a small problem,
> >> luanchpad.net does not support hosting Debian packages, and for each
> >> package per Ubuntu release, it hosts the latest version. So I upload the
> >> Debian specific oVirt guest agent package as a Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)
> >> package.
> >>
> >> You can dowanlod them from the following link.
> >> https://launchpad.net/~zhshzhou/+archive/vdsm-ubuntu/+packages
> >>
> >> In all, the ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.8 (Raring) package is for both Ubuntu
> >> Raring and Precise. The ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.8 (Precise) is for Debian.
> > 
> > 
> > Great work - thanks a lot for the Debian and Ubuntu packages!
> > 
> > Just one little thing:
> > Can you add python-apt to the dependency list (it's missing in the
> > Debian Wheezy package - didn't test the Ubuntu packages but maybe it's
> > missing there, too)?
> > 
> > If python-apt isn't installed it's not possible to fetch installed
> > packages:
> > 
> > MainThread::INFO::2013-09-16
> > 15:23:22,977::ovirt-guest-agent::37::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
> > MainThread::INFO::2013-09-16
> > 15:23:23,015::GuestAgentLinux2::101::root::Unknown package management.
> > Application list report is disable
> > 
> > GuestAgentLinux2.py requires this python module to get the package
> > information.
> > 
> > All other features like system shutdown, nic information, memory,... are
> > working fine.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > René
> > 
> > 
> >>
> > 
>