[ovirt-users] Compiling oVirt for Debian.

[Leni Kadali Mutungi]

Thank you both for the warm welcome. I had already gone through the
development guide, but the other links are good; I will definitely
check them out and get back to you.

On 4/12/17, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Leni, welcome to the oVirt community!
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi <
>> lenikmutungi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> I am trying to install oVirt on Debian. So far I've managed to install
>>> a good chunk of the dependencies.
>>
>>
>> Nice to see interest in getting oVirt on Debian! I'm adding Milan Zamal
>> who was looking into getting vdsm running on Debian.
>>
>>
>>
>>> However I haven't been able to
>>> install otopi, ovirt-host-deploy, ovirt-js-dependencies,
>>> ovirt-setup-lib since Debian has no packages for these. With the
>>> exception of otopi (whose build instructions I was unable to make
>>> sense of on GitHub),
>>> everything else is to be gotten from Fedora/EPEL repos.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Please note that otopi is not supporting Debian yet.
>> It's missing support for the packaging system used by Debian. It
>> currently
>> support only yum and dnf package managers.
>> Being ovirt-host-deploy and ovirt-setup-lib depending on otopi, you'll
>> need to work on otopi code first.
>>
>
> Adding to otopi support for apt/dpkg is indeed interesting and useful, but
> imo isn't mandatory for a first milestone. Not having an apt packager will
> simply mean you can't install/update packages using otopi, but other things
> should work. Notably, you won't be able to use engine-setup for upgrades,
> at least not the way it's done with yum and versionlock.
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I had thought of using alien to convert from rpm to deb, but
>>> apparently the recommended thing is to compile from source, since
>>> using alien can lead to a complex version of dependency hell.
>>>
>>> I can download WildFly from source, though again the recommended
>>> procedure is to install ovirt-engine-wildfly and
>>> ovirt-wildfly-overlay.
>>>
>>
>> I would suggest to get in touch with Wildfly community about having
>> wildfly packaged for Debian.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Any assistance in tracking down the source code of the above packages
>>> so that I can install them is appreciated.
>>>
>>
> I think that all of them are maintained on gerrit.ovirt.org, and most have
> mirrors on github.com/ovirt.
>
> If you haven't yet, you might want to check also:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/engine/engine-development-environment/
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/
>
> The engine used to work on gentoo in the past, although I do not think
> anyone tried that in the last 1.5 years, so the following is not up-to-date
> or working, but can still give you some ideas:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt
>
> Good luck and best regards,
>
>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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Leni Kadali Mutungi