hi
if you need someone to test the centos8 pkgs, Im interested :)
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Am 13.12.2019 01:31, schrieb Steven Haigh:
On 2019-12-13 04:54, Kevin Stange wrote:
I don't want to burden Steven Haigh any, but I wonder if there's a way we could combine some of our efforts to make both "Xen made easy!" and the Virt SIG Xen easier to manage.
I've been thinking about this for a while. The problem has been the workflows between myself and the SIG are so far apart, its hard to look at how to merge them.
I have full CI between my own git and packages to the mirrors - which is good, but has its down sides. I also don't have the restrictions of the CentOS build system to deal with - which is great for my workflow ;)
I'm prepping packages for CentOS 8 now - but its exposing quite a number of problems around the main toolsets for Xen - and instead of just adding my own patch and moving on (ala Fedora's Xen packages), I'm trying to get fixes in upstream where possible.
My todo list currently includes:
- Replace all #! that include env python to a specific python
version/binary. ie /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/python3. The configure portions of this are complete, but the scripts need to be altered to have the detected python version populated.
- There's no brctl in CentOS 8. The network scripts need to be
re-written to use 'ip' instead. To maintain compatibility, the network scripts need to support both brctl and ip commands and use whichever is present on the system.
- UEFI support needs to be tested. The preferred UEFI boot method for
Dom0 is to use grub to then boot Xen - but this needs to be tested.
So while me moving to try and get these fixed upstream is great - it should make everyone's job easier in the long term. Although I have the same problem as the SIG - there's just not enough people to test / patch stuff. The more we deep dive into 4.13, the further away I can see the release happening :(