OpenNebula package mantainer request

[Steve Traylen]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jaime Melis <j.melis at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> great to see interest regarding this request!
>
> Mathew: thanks for your offer, I will let you know once the rpm gets
> submitted to EPEL, or even before if we stumble with tricky things so
> you can give us a hand if you have time for it.
>
> Steve: I didn't know you were trying to package OpenNebula, that's
> great. As you said there are tricky dependencies, especially sqlite.
> One possible solution is to entirely disable sqlite, since OpenNebula
> 2.0 now fully supports mysql, so maybe we could remove sqlite from the
> rpm package and use mysql by default.
>
> There is also another dependency that concerns me: xmlrpc-c. For the
> moment we use the xmlrpc-c and xmlrpc-c-devel packages from the
> centos.karan.org repo.

There's a new version of cmake well on the the way into EPEL5, this may well
help with xmlrpc-c being added.
>
> regards,
> Jaime
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Steve Traylen <steve.traylen at cern.ch> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jaime Melis <j.melis at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We are about to release OpenNebula 2.0 [1], which is a Cloud Computing
>>> framework, and we would like to include it in EPEL.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone interested in being OpenNebula's package mantainer for EPEL?
>>
>> Hi Jamie,
>>
>> I am interested and even started doing it a few months  ago.
>> At that time I got stuck with your sqlite requirement which is why
>> the following has been done.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571458
>> Though since then of course RHEL/EPEL6 is on it's way which
>> makes a good starting point.
>>
>> We also of course as you well know use opennebula where I am.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Grid_Computing
>> may also interest you, I've added opennebula it's
>> wishlist.
>>
>>>
>>> If it helps, we have already built RPM packages, so we have a spec
>>> file that works, but it should be reviewed by actual package
>>> mantainers, since we didn't follow all the good practices listed in
>>> the Fedora Packaging guidelines document.
>> Certainly it helps.
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jaime Melis
>>
>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://opennebula.org
>>>
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>>
>>
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