Bug 1393707 - RFE: virt-preview repository on fedora
Summary: RFE: virt-preview repository on fedora
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1398321
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Product: ovirt-release
Classification: oVirt
Component: Packaging.rpm
Version: 4.0.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ovirt-4.1.0-alpha
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Assignee: Sandro Bonazzola
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-10 08:15 UTC by Francesco Romani
Modified: 2017-05-11 09:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-28 15:50:04 UTC
oVirt Team: Integration
ylavi: ovirt-4.1?
rule-engine: planning_ack?
rule-engine: devel_ack?
rule-engine: testing_ack?


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Description Francesco Romani 2016-11-10 08:15:43 UTC
Description of problem:
Vdsm quite often require last stable libvirt/qemu packages to make use of the last features. On CentOS/RHEL, the packages are updated after the release, so this is usually no issue. On Fedora, no updates besides bugfixes are given,
so one fedora release is stuck with one libvirt/qemu version far all its lifetime.

One given oVirt releases support current and past fedora releases; for example, the current fedora version is 24, the current ovirt version is 4.0, so ovirt 4.0 support both fedora 23 and 24.

So the lack of updated libvirt/qemu packages is an issue on fedora.
To mitigate this issue we informally recommended the usage of the virt-preview repository: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

This repository provides updated packages for fedora. Those packages aren't stable like the standard ones; since we don't recommend fedora for production, this is not a real issue.

ovirt-release should support virt-preview, either always enabling it or providing the configuration disabled by default.
This is because we try hard NOT to always require virt-preview, but more often than not we need it.

At present day, both oVirt 4.1.z (to be released) and oVirt >= 4.0.6 will require libvirt >= 2.0, thus virt-preview repo on fedora 24.

Comment 1 Francesco Romani 2016-11-10 08:24:32 UTC
example/reference: patch https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/66343/ wants to enable virt-preview for Vdsm CI

Comment 2 Sandro Bonazzola 2016-11-28 15:50:04 UTC
ovirt-master-snapshot already enable it. Closing as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1398321 ***


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