Packaging of noVNC and Websockets

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:39:05PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 04:08:41 PM Adam Young wrote:
> > It looks like a couple of projects are interested in using the noVNC
> > viewer as a way of talking to machines from a web browser.  I've made a
> > first stab at packageing them, and, in doing so,  learned a little bit.
> > 
> > The noVNC code is designed around a proxy that, under the Debian deploy,
> > lives in /usr/share/noVNC/utils/.  This directory contains shell
> > scripts, a shared object complete with Makefile, and lots of python
> > code.  Needless to say, it does not match Fedora packaging standards.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> OpenNebula optionally uses noVNC but it downloads it with a script  to /tmp 
> and creates a symlink to /usr/share/one/noVNC vs packaging it. So I wonder how 
> this would work in packaging.

Well OpenNebula would just need to be changed to note download anything
if it finds it already installed in /usr/bin


Daniel
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