Re: [PULL 00/17] Net patches

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 01:34:54PM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 9/8/23 13:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Hi Ilya and Jason,
> > There is a CI failure related to a missing Debian libxdp-dev package:
> > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5046139967
> > 
> > I think the issue is that the debian-amd64 container image that QEMU
> > uses for testing is based on Debian 11 ("bullseye" aka "oldstable")
> > and libxdp is not available on that release:
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libxdp&searchon=names&suite=oldstable&section=all
> 
> Hmm.  Sorry about that.
> 
> > 
> > If we need to support Debian 11 CI then either XDP could be disabled
> > for that distro or libxdp could be compiled from source.
> 
> I'd suggest we just remove the attempt to install the package for now,
> building libxdp from sources may be a little painful to maintain.
> 
> Can be re-added later once distributions with libxdp 1.4+ will be more
> widely available, i.e. when fedora dockerfile will be updated to 39,
> for example.  That should be soon-ish, right?

If you follow the process in docs/devel/testing.rst for adding
libxdp in libvirt-ci, then lcitool will "do the right thing"
when we move the auto-generated dockerfiles to new distro versions.


With regards,
Daniel
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