On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:35 AM, George Dunlap George.Dunlap@citrix.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Sandro Bonazzola sbonazzo@redhat.com
wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jiri Denemark jdenemar@redhat.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released, it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released upstream.
So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of libvirt for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.
If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?
Sounds good to me, welcome aboard! My only concern is that libvirt is
built also for xen so we need to ensure we don't break anything there.
+1 for me to have Jiri added to Virt SIG
I would be really glad to have a shared libvirt between oVirt and Xen projects. Are you planning on only building the most recent release, or on maintaining some older releases for some period of time?
-George
Jiri welcome aboard :-) Please add yourself and your project to https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization To get more info about the build system please read: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CommunityBuildSystem CentOS provides a jenkins instance running at https://ci.centos.org/ for testing your builds. Feel free ask here if you have any question.