Il 24/09/2014 00:21, Nir Soffer ha scritto: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <dan...@redhat.com> >> To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbona...@redhat.com>, devel@ovirt.org, >> fsimo...@redhat.com, dougsl...@redhat.com >> Cc: "users" <us...@ovirt.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:21:18 AM >> Subject: [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora >> >> Since Vdsm was open-sourced, it was built and deployed via >> Fedora. >> >> Recently [http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31214] vdsm introduced a spec-file >> dependency onf qemu-kvm-rhev, and considered to backport it to the >> ovirt-3.4 brach. >> >> Requiring qemu-kvm-rhev, which is not part of Fedora's EPEL6 branch, >> violates Fedora's standards. >> >> So basically we have two options: > > 4 options... > >> >> 1. Revert the qemu-kvm-rhev dependency. > > Why did we merge a package which is not available on all supported platforms? > >> 2. Drop vdsm from EPEL6 (or completely from Fedora); ship Vdsm only >> within the oVirt repositories. > > 3. Package qemu-kvm-rhev in Fedora
in EPEL. But if you're going to add it to EPEL please ensure it doesn't violate https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies > > This is the root cause, lets fix it. > > 4. Until 3 is fixed, require qemu-kvm-rhev where it exists, > otherwise on qemu-kvm. Which is basically 1 only for the fedora packaging, keeping the dep on ovirt packaging. > >> I favor option 2. The Fedora deployment platform served us well for a >> long time, but now that ovirt is maturing, we no longer need it for >> building vdsm. This has the added benefit of removing the need to pass >> through Fedora's ghastly gateway when adding a Vdsm dependency. > > This is the wrong direction. We want ovirt in all distributions. You suggest > to have it in no distribution :-) I tend to agree with Nir. >> Sandro, what should be done in order to build Vdsm by ovirt, occording >> to the most up-to-date tag in a stable branch? currently we're using mock for building packages whenever we can use it. for vdsm I created a yaml job here: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/32512 once it's merged you can build from git tag. > >> Does anybody object this? If no one does, we would stop updating Vdsm in >> Fedora, and obsolete it in the future. > > I do > > Nir > -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
