[Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

Hello,

Any updates for the 
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/fedora-virt-preview.repo repo 
to qemu 2.2.1 planned?

Thank you.

Ciao,
Gerhard

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:18:39PM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Any updates for the
> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/fedora-virt-preview.repo
> repo to qemu 2.2.1 planned?

The above is maintained by Fedora Virtualization maintainers. I added
Cole Robinson, who maintains the virt-preview repo in Fedora to this
thread.

Also, topics like these are better discussed on Fedora Virtualization
mailing list[1].


[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt

-- 
/kashyap

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/13/2015 08:07 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:18:39PM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Any updates for the
>> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/fedora-virt-preview.repo
>> repo to qemu 2.2.1 planned?
> 
> The above is maintained by Fedora Virtualization maintainers. I added
> Cole Robinson, who maintains the virt-preview repo in Fedora to this
> thread.
> 
> Also, topics like these are better discussed on Fedora Virtualization
> mailing list[1].
> 
> 
> [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
> 

Since 2.3 rc0 should be out tomorrow, I'll just wait for that to be released
and build it for rawhide/f22 and virt-preview

- Cole

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On 16.03.2015 19:49, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Since 2.3 rc0 should be out tomorrow, I'll just wait for that to be released
> and build it for rawhide/f22 and virt-preview
>

Shouldn't we have a 2.2.1 version, too?

A reference point between 2.1 and the not yet released version 2.3 
version would be fine.

Thank you.

Ciao,
Gerhard

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/16/2015 06:20 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> On 16.03.2015 19:49, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Since 2.3 rc0 should be out tomorrow, I'll just wait for that to be released
>> and build it for rawhide/f22 and virt-preview
>>
> 
> Shouldn't we have a 2.2.1 version, too?
> 
> A reference point between 2.1 and the not yet released version 2.3 version
> would be fine.
> 

The repos don't really work like that. If I build 2.2.1, then soon after build
2.3-rc0, the 2.2.1 packages will disappear from the repos. In the case of
rawhide you could still grab it from koji, but for virt-preview the 2.2.1
package would be gone. So I don't see the usefulness in putting in effort to
package 2.2.1 when it will only be available for a very brief window of time.

- Cole

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On 17.03.2015 14:59, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/16/2015 06:20 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> On 16.03.2015 19:49, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Since 2.3 rc0 should be out tomorrow, I'll just wait for that to be released
>>> and build it for rawhide/f22 and virt-preview
>>>
>> Shouldn't we have a 2.2.1 version, too?
>>
>> A reference point between 2.1 and the not yet released version 2.3 version
>> would be fine.
>>
> The repos don't really work like that. If I build 2.2.1, then soon after build
> 2.3-rc0, the 2.2.1 packages will disappear from the repos. In the case of
> rawhide you could still grab it from koji, but for virt-preview the 2.2.1
> package would be gone. So I don't see the usefulness in putting in effort to
> package 2.2.1 when it will only be available for a very brief window of time.
>

Yes, but shouldn't be there a difference between rawhide (e.g. 2.3-rc0) 
and fedora virt preview library (e.g. currently 2.2.1)?
Or is rawhide everything and fedora-virt-preview.repo only the virt part 
of rawhide?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/fedora-virt-preview.repo

Nevertheless I don't see any advantages releasing RC production quality 
to the rawhide repository as we expect the release soon.

As my question regarding "support" for virt preview was not answered 
when I had problems and tried it I think I'll switch back to Fedora 
supported repos.

Thank you anyway.

Ciao,
Gerhard

Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt preview and qemu 2.2.1 update

[Eric Blake]

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On 03/17/2015 12:28 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:

> Yes, but shouldn't be there a difference between rawhide (e.g. 2.3-rc0)
> and fedora virt preview library (e.g. currently 2.2.1)?
> Or is rawhide everything and fedora-virt-preview.repo only the virt part
> of rawhide?
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/fedora-virt-preview.repo

fedora-virt-preview aims to ship in Fedora N what you would otherwise
have to use Fedora N+1 for, limiting to just virtualization packages.
So if rawhide (F23) is shipping qemu 2.2.1, then fedora-virt-preview for
F22 will also ship qemu 2.2.1.

> 
> Nevertheless I don't see any advantages releasing RC production quality
> to the rawhide repository as we expect the release soon.

I see tremendous benefit to putting the RC candidate in rawhide - that
much extra testing to make sure the final release is not going to cause
unexpected regressions.

> 
> As my question regarding "support" for virt preview was not answered
> when I had problems and tried it I think I'll switch back to Fedora
> supported repos.

This list isn't the primary list for fedora-virt-preview questions; it's
not that the product is unsupported, but that the support is better
found on the correct list.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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