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Summary: Review Request: fence-virt - Modular virtual machine fencing daemon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524105
Summary: Review Request: fence-virt - Modular virtual machine fencing daemon Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: lhh@redhat.com QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: notting@redhat.com, fedora-package-review@redhat.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora Target Release: ---
Spec URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fence-virt/files/fence-virt.spec/download
SRPM URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fence-virt/files/fence-virt-0.1-1.fc11.src....
Description: A pluggable fencing framework for virtual machines
The goal is to eventually replace fence_xvm/fence_xvmd in fence-agents with the included functionality. The reason this is a separate package from fence-agents is the fact that this agent would pull in a very wide range of dependencies which should be avoided. For example, when a thin-hypervisor (e.g. oVirt) backend is written, the only requirements on the ring-0 operating system would be:
fence-virtd-0.2 fence-virtd-ovirt-0.2 (or whatever the plugin name is)
This division of dependencies will keep the ring-0 operating system image significantly smaller than would inclusion in the fence-agents package. Furthermore, since the host package does not strictly depend on anything cluster related (indeed, it could be configured *without* cluster parts!), it is fairly logical to separate it.
[lhh@localhost rpm]$ rpmlint SPECS/fence-virt.spec 0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings. [lhh@localhost rpm]$ rpmlint SRPMS/fence-virt-0.1-1.fc11.src.rpm 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings. [lhh@localhost rpm]$ rpmlint RPMS/x86_64/fence-virt* fence-virt-compat.x86_64: W: no-documentation fence-virt-compat.x86_64: W: dangling-relative-symlink /usr/sbin/fence_xvm fence_virt fence-virtd.x86_64: W: no-documentation fence-virtd-checkpoint.x86_64: W: no-documentation fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64: W: no-documentation fence-virtd-multicast.x86_64: W: no-documentation 7 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 6 warnings.
Warnings:
Fence-virt-compat: The entire package is a symlink to fence_virt. It correctly conflicts with fence-agents and requires the fence-virt package (to which it links). Effectively, this symlink makes fence_virt behave like fence_xvm does today, and is wire-compatible with previous versions of fence_xvm.
Documentation: Several warnings are plugin packages which admittedly need documentation (for example how to use them!). I hope to resolve these in a future release (say version 0.2).