[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen package update (including XSA-156)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:20:49PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 11/18/2015 02:08 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:42:18PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> >>On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 02:04:58PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> >>>On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:00:27PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>> >>>>So going forward, we're moving the CentOS 6 Xen packages from the
>> >>>>custom "xen4" repos that were introduced several years ago, to repos
>> >>>>based on its position as a sub-project of the Virt Sig.  That will
>> >>>>make things consistent between all the sigs, as well as between CentOS
>> >>>>6 and 7 Xen packages.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Unfortunately, XSA-156 came up rather suddenly and is a bit blocked by
>> >>>>this transition.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>So please help us test the new repository structure, so that we can
>> >>>>with conscience push the updates to xen4 users in general.
>> >>>>
>> >>>Seems to work for me!
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>Except now on another system I see this problem:
>> >>
>> >Anyone else seeing this libvirt-python problem with virt-manager and/or virt-viewer ?
>> >
>> >(happens on a freshly installed system, so no earlier libvirt rpms installed)
>> >
>> It tries to install half of the OS, but it works for me.  It seems
>> that your yum does not like that you already have
>> libvirt-client-1.2.15-3.el6.x86_64. Mine is happy to bring in
>> libvirt-{python,client}-0.10.2-54.el6_7.2.x86_64 from updates
>>
>
> libvirt-{python,client}-0.10.2-54.el6_7.2.x86_64 are the centos core packages,
> while the libvirt-client-1.2.15-3.el6.x86_64 is the Virt SIG provided one,
> which has Xen support enabled.
>
> So I need the 1.2.15-3 versions, but it seems libvirt-python is not included in the Virt SIG built ones..
>
> So that's an issue/problem..

Right -- for 1.2.12 they decided to  have libvirt-python be a
completely separate package.  I  had apparently started getting that
package built at some time in the distant past but never finished.

I've cloned & build Fedora's libvirt-python-1.2.15 (which is pretty
much what I did for libvirt-1.2.15); it should show up in buildlogs in
an hour or two.  Once that's in, if you go "yum
--enablerepo=centos-virt-xen-testing virt-manager", it should install.
(At least, the version in CBS works for me.)

Let me know if it works.

Thanks,
 -George