[Ovirt-devel] RFC w/o PATCH: Renaming oVirt RPMs

Perry N. Myers pmyers at redhat.com
Wed Sep 3 10:08:15 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:37:21AM +0200, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> I propose to rename oVirt package names as follows:
>>
>> ovirt-host-image -> ovirt-node-image
>> ovirt-managed-node -> ovirt-node
>> ovirt-wui -> ovirt-server (to be split later into one subpkg per daemon)
>>
>> and directory renames:
>>
>> ovirt-managed-node -> node/
>> ovirt-host-creator -> node/image
>> wui -> server
>> wui-appliance -> server/appliance
>>
>> Does anyone have an issue with the proposal?
>> It's already too late for such restructuring, but we do it now or never...
> 
> IMHO, rather than just rename the directories in GIT you should create
> separate repos for each of those 4 top level directories. There's no
> good reason to keep those pieces in the same repo. They're worked on
> by different people and we should enforce strong separation in the code
> repo, to ensure a stable versioned interfaces to be developed for any
> interaction between independant pieces. Otherwise things just get sloppy
> and you get into a mess like Xen, where every single piece of the entire
> infrastructure has to come from an exact matching release otherwise the
> ABIs are incompatible.

Dan,

I'm not opposed to having separate repos for:

ovirt-node
ovirt-server-suite
ovirt-node-image
ovirt-appliance

Though it does change our build environment drastically since the notion 
of 'build-all' completely breaks.  Any suggestions for how we should 
incorporate build-all into this new layout?

Perry




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