[ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:42:05PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 04:06 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >I don't belive Vdsm is soon to be used by anything outside oVirt. But if
> >software purists win, oVirt would publish only tarballs.
> >Fedora/Debian/whatever would build, package, and deploy them all, and
> >the ovirt repo would become redundant.
> >
> >I did not expect to hear much support for keeping Vdsm in Fedora. Given
> >what I've heard, how about taking the in-between road?
> >
> >- Keep Vdsm in Fedora, abiding to Fedora rules.
> >- Hope that Engine and qemu-kvm-rhev join, too.
> 
> we did the work to add engine, but it was useless without its gui, and was
> impossible to add gwt to fedora.
> qemu-kvm-rhev is not needed in fedora as fedora has a full blown qemu-kvm
> with all features enabled.
> you only need qemu-kvm-rhev on .el6 hosts.

I meant that qemu-kvm-rhev is missing from Fedora's EPEL6/7 branches. As
such, Vdsm cannot require it in its own EPEL build.

> 
> >- Until they do, build vdsm.rpm with non-Fedora quirks (such as the
> >   qemu-kvm-rhev requirement)
> 
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