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

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:02:00PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:28 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK, well in the absence of testing, it works for me, so I've tagged it
> to go to the main repo, and Johnny will be pushing the updated
> centos-release-xen to centos-extras tonight or tomorrow.
>

Sorry for the delay.

I grabbed libvirt-python-1.2.15-1.el6.x86_64.rpm from:
http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/6/virt/x86_64/xen/

rpm installed fine. After that virt-manager and virt-viewer installed fine too. 
virt-manager seems to start/run fine aswell. I'll play with it more now.. 

So the main issue seems to be fixed with that libvirt-python build!


Thanks a lot,

-- Pasi

 
>  -George