[Gluster-devel] RPM re-structuring

[Deepak C Shetty]

I am a bit lost here.. so pardon me if I am misquoting something.
But I really wanted to know where does /usr/sbin/gluster sits, i mean 
which RPM ?

Currently VDSM needs /usr/sbin/gluster since thats needed by gluster cli 
plugin of VDSM.
This gluster plugin gets used to query the transport type as part of 
GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN storage domain usecase.

Currently, this is what i see...

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/gluster
glusterfs-server-3.4.0beta1-1.fc17.x86_64

which means for somebody to use gluster vdsm plugin, one needs to 
install glusterfs-server rpm.

But from VDSM spec file...

%if 0%{?with_gluster}
%package gluster
Summary:        Gluster Plugin for VDSM
BuildArch:      noarch

Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: glusterfs >= 3.4.0
Requires: glusterfs-server
Requires: glusterfs-fuse
Requires: glusterfs-rdma
Requires: python-magic

which means, that if the hypervisor host is not a gluster node, 
vdsm-gluster RPM is optional
and if User doesn't install it.. he won't get glusterfs-server, and 
hence no /usr/sbin/gluster

and because of this, we run into 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299

Based on my debug, it seems like the absence of gluster binary is the 
root cause here, tho' I can confirm
once the BZ reported gives back more info.

VDSM (which is eq. to hypervisor host) in this case is a hyp. only host, 
hence vdsm-gluster is not a necessity
but it can be a gluster client (as part of User using GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN 
storage domain), for which the hyp. only host
still needs /usr/sbin/gluster binary.

To clarify further... vdsm/storage/gluster/cli.py is not part of 
vdsm-gluster rpm, its part of vdsm package.. and this was done long back 
to ensure VDSM acting as gluster client doesn't necessarily need to 
install vdsm-gluster rpm. But since /usr/sbin/gluster is part of 
glusterfs-server, the problem is resurfaced.

I wanted to understand for the above scenario... where VDSM is just a 
gluster client.. what RPM (post the re-structuring) will be needed to be 
installed on the VDSM hyp. only host ? This also means post RPM 
re-structuring we need to change vdsm.spec.in too

thanx,
deepak