Bug 1177290

Same problem still exists on Centos 6.5 with oVirt3.5

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ovirt-engine-backend-3.5.0.1-1.el6.noarch (ovirt-3.5)
           Requires: novnc
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest


Non official workaround to build rpm from source..Steps included:
Dependency installs:

[root@ovirt_engine ~]# yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools cpp make gcc python2-devel python-websockify

1. Creating RPM:
[root@ovirt_engine ~]# useradd mockbuild
[root@ovirt_engine ~]# su - mockbuild
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine ~]$ wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/novnc-0.4-7.el6ev.src.rpm
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine ~]$ ls
novnc-0.4-7.el6ev.src.rpm
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine ~]$ rpmdev-setuptree
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine ~]$ rpm -Uvh novnc-0.4-7.el6ev.src.rpm
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine rpmbuild]$ cd SPECS/
[mockbuild@ovirt_engine SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba novnc.spec

2. Installing RPM:
rpm -ivh /home/mockbuild/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/novnc-0.4-7.el6.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:novnc                  ########################################### [100%]

You will be able to proceed with your install.

(In reply to Shahriyar Rzayev from comment #1)
> Same problem still exists on Centos 6.5 with oVirt3.5
> 
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-backend-3.5.0.1-1.el6.noarch (ovirt-3.5)
>            Requires: novnc
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> 
> Non official workaround to build rpm from source..Steps included:
> Dependency installs:
> 
> [root@ovirt_engine ~]# yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools cpp make gcc
> python2-devel python-websockify
> 
> 1. Creating RPM:
> [root@ovirt_engine ~]# useradd mockbuild
> [root@ovirt_engine ~]# su - mockbuild
> [mockbuild@ovirt_engine ~]$ wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/
> novnc-0.4-7.el6ev.src.rpm

Thanks.

We now built this in jenkins [1] and updated the repo, should be ok for now (once the mirrors are synced).

[1] http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/manual-build-tarball/448/

Not sure why epel added the dependency on openstack-nova-novncproxy, the above package does not have it.

Also not sure what we want to do next - officially provide it in ovirt (and then we want to maintain its source somehow), talk with epel about unretiring it, whatever.

I now compared the latest tree prior to retiring novnc in epel6 [1] with the sources of the rhev version mentioned above [2].

It seems to me that epel6 added to the source package also stuff to integrate it with openstack, which caused the problem leading them eventually to retire.

We (oVirt) do not need it because we have our own websocket-proxy.

I think the right track to take will be to package novnc itself, without additions/integration/etc. If centos/epel, openstack, or someone else, then wants to also package and maintain something like openstack-nova-novncproxy, it should probably be done in a separate package.

This can be done either by epel/centos or by us (ovirt). It can be based on the existing [2] (which is really very small). Since this way it's not tied or even related to oVirt, it's more natural imo to do that in centos or epel in principle - not sure about the actual process.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/novnc.git/commit/?h=el6&id=efec89c4a254aeac90a9bf2e0076c1b1eea858b7

[2] http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/novnc-0.4-7.el6ev.src.rpm

Re-targeted to 3.6 since a workaround has been provided for 3.5.z:
novnc is now provided by ovirt repo while we decide how to handle it for 3.6.

Hi Alan, I see you have asked acls for novnc on el6 [1]

Can you please add a note here when novnc will be available again in epel 6?
Thanks

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20150105/1484085.html

Please test a scratch build of latest Fedora version which I plan to import to el6 after unretiring:

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8614/8548614/novnc-0.4-9.el6.noarch.rpm

(In reply to Alan Pevec from comment #6)
> Please test a scratch build of latest Fedora version which I plan to import
> to el6 after unretiring:
> 
> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8614/8548614/novnc-0.4-9.el6.
> noarch.rpm

Seems to work fine for me.

Tracking in
https://trello.com/c/ZWOni2aV/23-unretire-novnc-in-epel6

Pending on https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6078

novnc-0.4-9.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/novnc-0.4-9.el6

^ please test & give karma!

Alan: done

novnc-0.4-9.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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Verified on ovirt-engine-3.6.0.3-1.el6.noarch

Since oVirt 3.6.0 has been released, moving from verified to closed current release.