On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote: > On 09/14/2011 01:59 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > Based on the bug report for the snapshot-create issue, it seems it's in > > libvirt 0.9.0 and that it's something that may be solved completely in > > Fedora 16. Is there a good way to find if a specific patch/fix has been > > applied upstream by Red Hat? > > grab the sources, look at the code. I hepe to have an easier way than > that soon, stay tuned :) > > > What goes into the maintenance of a patch? I'd be happy to do so, but I > > only know enough C to be able to work in patches / changes and track > > down compile errors, but not enough to have been the original person > > that finds these solutions. > > essentially, when you request a package be locally ( ie, in CentOS ) > patched, we would need to copy that rpm over from the base distro into > the CentOS Plus repo. Apply the patch, test it, release it. But that > process needs to be re-done everytime there is an update to the rpm, as > long as upstream does not fix the issue, change the expected behaviour > to what you are proposing or remove / change functionality in a way that > its no longer possible to support the patches. But while the patch is in > circulation, it would mean that everytime there is an update from > upstream, you would need to make sure the patch still applies, or adapt > it to apply cleanly. > > does this clear up the requirements a bit ? > > - KB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > That does, thanks. If you want to give me more details off-list I'd like to work on getting these patches into CentOS Plus. Also where could I begin looking to see if upstream RHEL has applied these to their releases? Thanks - Trey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110920/d9b2bbeb/attachment-0005.html>