[CentOS-virt] qemu-kvm rebuild in Centos for oVirt in SIG Virt

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

On 05/23/2014 03:45 PM, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote:
> Hello Trey,
>
> On 05/23/2014 11:32 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
>> Is the plan to get the qemu-kvm build provided by CentOS to include
>> the "rhev-features"?
>
> Yes, we have been discussing about provide this rebuild via CentOS Virt
> SIG. Thanks for joining this thread, this shows how required this
> rebuild is.
>
>> I recently updated to oVirt 4.1 and while my
>> hypervisors were in maintenance I performed an update of all packages,
>> including qemu-kvm and noticed the latest version
>> (0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8) in the CentOS repos still does not include
>> live  snapshot capability.
>
> Correct, sorry about that.
>
>>
>> Any suggestion on how to version my internal rebuild of qemu-kvm to
>> prevent CentOS's RPM being installed?  My initial attempt is the
>> following:
>>
>> mock -D "dist .el6_5" -D "buildid .local" -r epel-6-x86_64
>> --with=rhev-features \
>> --rebuild
>> /home/treydock/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.src.rpm \
>> --resultdir=/home/treydock/qemu-kvm/rpms/local \
>> --cleanup-after
>>
>> The resulting RPMs still contain the same version as CentOS's builds.
>> Do I need to extract the SRPM, modify the spec, then rebuild a SRPM
>> built using the modified spec?
>
> What do you meant the same version? This command don't bump the release,
> so it should generate the same rpm version.
> However, oVirt team already provides rebuilds from all qemu-kvm packages
> provided by CentOS enabling this feature, every day we check for new
> version of qemu-kvm package and rebuild if it exists, please go to:
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/qemu-kvm-rhev_create-rpms_el6/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/rpms/
>
>
> ===== In case you would like to run a script ===
> WORKSPACE="your-workspace-dir"
> for version in '6.5' # '6.6' '6.7' '6.8' '6.9'
> do
>      QEMU_KVM_LATEST_SRC_RPM=`curl -s
> http://vault.centos.org/${version}/updates/Source/SPackages/ |grep -o -E
> 'href="([^"#]+)"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sort -r | uniq | grep qemu-kvm`
>
>      for qemu_kvm in ${QEMU_KVM_LATEST_SRC_RPM}
>      do
>          QEMU_KVM_LATEST_RPM=`basename ${qemu_kvm} .src.rpm`.x86_64.rpm
>          if [ ! -f "${WORKSPACE}"/rpms/${qemu_kvm} ]; then
>              wget -P "${WORKSPACE}"/rpms
> http://vault.centos.org/${version}/updates/Source/SPackages/${qemu_kvm}
>          fi
>          dist='dist .el'
>          build_version=${dist}${version//[\.]/_}
>          if [ ! -f "${WORKSPACE}"/rpms/${QEMU_KVM_LATEST_RPM} ]; then
>              sudo mock -D "${build_version}" -r epel-6-x86_64
> --with=rhev-features --rebuild "${WORKSPACE}"/rpms/${qemu_kvm}
> --resultdir="${WORKSPACE}"/rpms --cleanup-after
>          fi
>      done
> done
> ==============
>
> I would love to see this script or similar one (bumping the release?)
> running on CentOS SIG and after that executing createrepo command.
>
Hello,

I would like to continue this process in the SIG Virt. Any advice/steps 
which I should follow?

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers
Douglas