Re: Split kvm source tarballs

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> As part of the preparations for a formal maintenance branch, we're now 
> providing userspace-only source tarballs and kernel module-only source 
> tarballs.  The combined kernel/userspace package is still provided.
>
> Userspace package names will take the form 'qemu-kvm-devel-xx'.
> Kernel module package names will take the form 'kvm-kmod-devel-xx'.
> The combined package is named, as usual, kvm-xx'.
>
> When maintenance branch packages become available, -devel will be 
> dropped, of course.  Only the split packages will be available for the 
> maintenance branch.
>
> The userspace package can run against modules from the matching kernel 
> module package, or against modules from a released Linux kernel 
> (version 2.6.25 or higher).  In almost all cases, you can mix and 
> match userspace and kernel -devel packages.
>
> Please test the release candidates in 
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~avi/kvm-85rc1/ for any packaging errors.  
> Suggestions of any kind are also welcome.

Hrm, I notice that for qemu-kvm, you basically just pulled out the 
module source.

What do you think about going a step further and building a proper qemu 
repository?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori