[ovirt-users] Compiling oVirt for Debian.

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Leni Kadali Mutungi
<lenikmutungi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/17, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi
>> <lenikmutungi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I think that all of them are maintained on gerrit.ovirt.org, and most
>>>>> have
>>>>> mirrors on github.com/ovirt.
>>>>>
>>> Found all the source code on gerrit.ovirt.org; not all of it is
>>> mirrored to 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/
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> So does this mean I shouldn't bother with installing otopi, because
>>> according to the development guide for RPM-based systems, it seems
>>> only the ovirt-host-deploy, ovirt-setup-lib, and ovirt-js-dependencies
>>> are the packages required.
>>
>> ovirt-host-deploy requires otopi, and also engine-setup (from the engine
>> git repo) does. So unless you want to start manually imitating what these
>> do (which might not be a terrible idea, if you want to understand more
>> deeply how things work, but will take more time), you do need otopi.
>>
>> Also please note that the above developer guide is probably not complete
>> or up-to-date - please check also README.adoc from the engine sources.
>>
>>> The guide for Debian is blank and marked as
>>> TODO.
>>
>> Indeed, patches are welcome :-)
>>
>> I expect at least some packages to be missing there, didn't check
>> personally.
>>
>>> Another query I had was that should I make the config files
>>> myself as referenced by the README or can I expect that it will be
>>> done during make install?
>>
>> which ones? postgresql's? It's automatically done when you install
>> from RPMs, but not in dev-env mode. So you'll have to do that
>> manually for now.
>
> I was referring to the configuration files referenced in the README
> docs for otopi, ovirt-host-deploy, ovirt-setup-lib, and
> ovirt-js-dependencies.

otopi and ovirt-host-deploy do not need configuration files.
ovirt-setup-lib does not have any (and does not mention any).
No idea about ovirt-js-dependencies.

> I'm not sure that running the make install will
> put the required configuration files in the directories that the
> programs will expect to find them.

Not sure either.

I suggest to check the spec file in the source to see what rpm
installation does, and the gentoo stuff I mentioned earlier.

> If it turns out that that is the
> case, then I think I am all set.

And if you are not, please post specific errors/problems :-)

> I installed postgresql from the
> Debian repositories.

Obviously. When I said "from RPMs", I referred the oVirt and the
provided spec files, not to postgresql. IIRC I already used oVirt
with a postgresql db on a remote Debian machine without problems.

Best,
-- 
Didi