hi if you need someone to test the centos8 pkgs, Im interested :) --- ------ Greetz 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: > 1) 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. > > 2) 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. > > 3) 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 :(