> -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 9:06 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Licensing: libvirt-java (from RBD thread) > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > Since the RBD thread was spinning out of control I figured it would be > > best to start a new thread: > > > > "Wido: perhaps you could produce some packages for testing? at > least .debs? > > > > --David" > > > > I've been doing that today. I can now generate a libvirt-java debian > > package which should work on Debian and Ubuntu. I'll test it further > > and sent patches to libvirt so they can add it to the libvirt-java repo. > > > > We we could provide a deb, libvirt already provides an RPM and let the > > cloud-agent depend on it? > > > > That way we'll never ship the JAR inside the cloud-agent package and > > we can simply but it online. > > > > For Debian/Ubuntu I'm still voting for a APT repository where people > > can download/install the CloudStack packages from. When they install > > 'cloud-agent' they will simply also download libvirt-java from that > > same repository. > > > > I can than try to get the Deb into Debian and Ubuntu and David, you > > might get it into Fedora? > > > > Would this work? > > > > Wido > > > So a couple of things: > > * CloudStack (in its current form) won't build without libvirt-java. > > This means either: > a. CloudStack declares libvirt-java to be a system requirement b. We break > out KVM support and make it an optional/non-default part of the build
We will definitely do (b) in the repackaging effort. I think most of the hypervisors have been broken out now. We missed kvm because it's hidden in the agent project. --Alex > > Both of the above result in cloud-libvirt.jar being removed from the repo. > > Take a look at: > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html (I think we will become very > well versed in this particular page over the next month or so) > > --David
