Daniel Veillard a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:41:40PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:27:58AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>
> I think it is a bad idea to push major new versions of anything to a
> distro that is about to go end of life. We've only just released these
> new libvirt, virt-manager & virtinst packages. We *will* cause regressions
> in functionality in F8, and with it about to go end of life, we'll be
> unable to push further updates to fix the regressions.
>
> If someone really badly wants new libvirt/virt-manager for F8, then they
> can easily just take the new RPMs from F9/10 and do a rpmbuild --rebuild
> on the src. This avoids causing regressions for anyone else on F8 who
> don't care.
>
The other solution is to build the package in Testing and not push it
to Stable, like I did for libvirt, I think this minimize the risks while
avoiding the multiple builds (and hence risk of massive divergence of
the versions).
Daniel
Hello,
This is a very interesting point...
Fedora 8 is for now the latest Fedora distribution with a Xen dom0 :
* Fedora 9 doesn't have a dom0 according to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops#Release_Notes
* the next Fedora with a Xen dom0 will be Fedora 10, according to
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html
(20.1 Kernel Integration Improvements : "Xen Dom0 support will be added
back in Fedora 10")
I am curious about :
The other solution is to build the package in Testing and not push
it
to Stable, like I did for libvirt, I think this minimize the risks while
avoiding the multiple builds (and hence risk of massive divergence of
the versions).
Does the fact of pushing Fedora 8 packages into Testing instead of
Stable allows future updates of theses packages to be available to Fedora 8 users even
after its end of life ?
P.S. : is there any place to follow the development of
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops ?
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