[Users] [oVirt Test Day 3] devel env report

[Alexander Wels]

I installed the engine development environment from scratch on:

Fedora 19:
Followed the instructions and in about 30 minutes I was compiling a new engine 
which failed the first compile due to a java perm space error, I restarted the 
compile and it finished successfully. The box only had 4G of memory available 
so that might be the cause for the perm space issue. The instructions where up 
to date and accurate on what to do.

Running the engine worked perfectly.

Centos 6.5:
Followed the instructions, and noticed the following omissions:

1. Issues with installing JBOSS as there is no repository available for 
Centos. After manual downloaded I installed JBOSS manually and continued on.
2. Then I found that maven is not available in a yum repo mentioned in the 
document anywhere so I have to manually install maven.
3. For the 3rd party packages, if you use java-devel it installs java 1.6, if 
you want to use java 1.7 you need to install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel instead.

After fixing those 3 issues, I had the same perm space error for Centos. Again 
that might be because the machine only has 4G of memory available. Rerunning 
the compile completed successfully.

Had one minor hickup when running the engine, I used a live-cd to install 
Centos, and it didn't come with /etc/mime.types. This caused an exception in 
the engine log and none of the pages were styled. So I had to install mailcap 
to get it. Opened [1] to track this issue.

Gentoo-engine:
I was unable to get a working Gentoo machine (After many many hours of 
compiling the kernel wouldn't boot, must not have set the right flags or 
something), so unable to test here.

Alexander

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073548