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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/23/2013 08:37 AM, Alexandre
Drahon wrote:<br>
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<div>I wanted to give an update on the status of Vagrant in
Fedora 20, I just realised it's my first post to the list so
I'll take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm Alex, I
work at Red Hat as a Solution Architect (ie. nothing
engineering related), I wrote the vagrant-kvm plugin on my
spare time to make it work on my Fedora laptop, though there's
now a (much more qualified) second maintainer who is also
providing support for Ubuntu through a PPA. Matthew asked me
if I wanted to work on packaging Vagrant and the KVM plugin
for Fedora 20, and I foolishly accepted ;)<br>
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<div>It's quite exhilarating having the opportunity to
contribute to Fedora, and at the same time I feel totally
lost. I don't mean this as a criticism, it's just this "first
week at school" feeling, it will take me some time to get an
idea of how things work. That said, here's the Vagrant
situation:<br>
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<div>1. I have a vagrant RPM that installs and works as
expected, there's some minimal patching involved which has to
do with the fact that Vagrant expect to be running in it's own
Ruby 1.9.3 environment in /opt<br>
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<div>2. There was also some patching involved to make the plugin
system work, although I haven't tested plugins extensively
(some stuff breaks like rubygems loading path) and providing
common plugins as RPMs looks like the better way in Fedora.<br>
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<div>3. I had to build my own rubygems-childprocess (current
Fedora package is very old) and rubygems-log4r (not provided
in Fedora) RPMs, but I don't know how I should submit them
(package review ticket?). There's a existing ticket for log4r
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href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905240">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905240</a>,
I added it as a dependency to the Vagrant ticket.<br>
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<div>4. I've packaged vagrant-kvm as a RPM and it installs, but
I'm running into serious issues with Policykit. I don't think
I'll be able to solve that without help, I'm not even sure
what's the right way to do it.<br>
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<div>So, as a summary:<br>
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<div> - yum install vagrant should work, at which point you need
to install VirtualBox and it will run as expected<br>
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<div> - vagrant-kvm installs but I don't know how to add the
right polkit rules (I need help)<br>
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<div>Looks pretty good, right?<br>
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<div>Alex<br>
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Hey Alex, looks awesome, thanks for submitting this.<br>
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Unfortunately I'm not too familiar w/ the polkit stuff, but
regarding the Ruby packaging, it looks similar to other situations
we've encountered when attempting to package Ruby code for our
platform. Unfortunately alot of upstream ruby tools are geared
towards heavily vendoring / bundling deps (often the primary
platform is Mac OSX). We're making headways on improving support for
and working around these situations (see stuff like [1], [2], and
[3]), often sending things upstream (which a variable acceptance
rate depending on community practices).<br>
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In any case, if you're looking for any assistance RE the ruby stuff,
I'd checkout the Ruby SIG [4] (if you haven't already). Or even just
forward this there, I'm sure there will be interest. Thanks again!<br>
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-Mo<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/bundlerext/bundler_ext">https://github.com/bundlerext/bundler_ext</a><br>
[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/ManageIQ/gem_dependency_checker/blob/master/gem_dependency_checker.rb">https://github.com/ManageIQ/gem_dependency_checker/blob/master/gem_dependency_checker.rb</a><br>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/voxik/gem-nice-install">https://github.com/voxik/gem-nice-install</a><br>
[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ruby_SIG">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ruby_SIG</a><br>
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