----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <dan...@redhat.com> > To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbona...@redhat.com>, de...@ovirt.org, > fsimo...@redhat.com, dougsl...@redhat.com > Cc: "users" <users@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 This is the root cause, lets fix it. 4. Until 3 is fixed, require qemu-kvm-rhev where it exists, otherwise on qemu-kvm. > 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 :-) > Does anybody object this? If no one does, we would stop updating Vdsm in > Fedora, and obsolete it in the future. I do Nir _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
