[Ovirt-devel] Feedback on the ovirt build docs
Bryan Kearney
bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 16:02:36 UTC 2008
Perry N. Myers wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> I just built ovirt based on the new repo split. Some feedback on the
>> docs [1]
>>
>> - You list the repos, which caused me to go check them out. Then, the
>> cool make file did it again. I would suggest a note to that effect to
>> save the download time.
>
> Will make a note on the build instructions page to this effect.
>
>> - The make file variables should be higher in the doc. I started
>> running the steps, stopped to make sure the repo was on the next
>> branch, then saw that the variables would have done it for me.
>
> I'll move that around.
>
>> - My first build failed, then I set the OVIRT_BRANCH and FEDORA_URL
>> env variables and it worked. Dont know if I got a bad mirror, or if
>> those have to be set.
>
> They don't need to be set. But it is preferable to have
> OVIRT_BRANCH=next so you get the latest development code.
As I said, I may have hit a bad mirror.
>
> Jim was toying with setting the default branch to next, but instead of
> that I could just make OVIRT_BRANCH default to next. Thoughts?
Yeah, I think if I am checking out the code I more then likely want the
development branch.
-- bk
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