On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > Agreed on this too .. let's use as much the same as we can, and we can > > use %if statements in the SPEC to differentiate el6 and el7 things, if > > necessary. systemd versus init and maybe some version number changes > > for buildrequires should be the changes we need to be concerned about. > > > > Yep! > > > > > We can try to take the RH 3.10 el7 kernel, mod it for xen, and use it .. > > or we can shift to 3.14.x and that buys us at least one more year .. or > > wait until they name the next LTS kernel and go for that. Likely the > > next LTS kernel will be the easiest option (the RH modified kernel will > > not support xen and rolling in stuff externally will be hard because of > > the backports RH does to the kernel (things that go into a standard > > kernel will not apply cleanly to the RH kernel). > > > > But, I agree lets try to use the el6 kernel for xen el7 too .. and we > > can switch both kernels as required later. > > > > Yeah we're not in a hurry with the dom0 kernel. Current Linux 3.10.x seems to work fine atm. > > Let's focus on getting the current rpms built for el7, > and then later we can update both el6 and el7 to later kernel/versions. > So.. how do we get the Xen 4.4.1 rpms port to el7 going.. ? :) -- Pasi