[ovirt-devel] FC27 updates broken for ovirt-4.2

[Dan Horák]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:54:06 +0100
Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 27.02.2018 13:35, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > בתאריך יום ג׳, 27 בפבר׳ 2018, 13:25, מאת Dan Horák ‏<dan at danny.cz>:
> > 
> >> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:13:15 +0100
> >> Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 27.02.2018 01:26, Nir Soffer wrote:
> >>>> בתאריך יום ב׳, 26 בפבר׳ 2018, 22:10, מאת Yaniv Kaul
> >>>>  ‏<ykaul at redhat.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Viktor Mihajlovski <
> >>>>> mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I just tried to update the ovirt packages on my FC27 host, but
> >>>>>> failed due to https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/87628/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> vdsm now requires libvirt >= 3.10.0-132 but Fedora 27 has only
> >>>>>> 3.7.0-4 the moment.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It's generic Fedora 27, but since I run on s390, cross-posting
> >>>>>> to s390 list.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I guess there's good reason to require libvirt 3.10. Is there
> >>>>>> any chance that we can get libvirt updated for Fedora 27?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Perhaps use the virt-preview[1] repo for now?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, we require virt-preview for Fedora. This is why that patch
> >>>> did not fail in the CI.
> >>> Makes sense, unfortunately virt-preview doesn't contains s390
> >>> binaries at this point in time. Would be great if at least
> >>> libvirt and qemu could be built for s390.
> >>
> >> looks like it's even x86_64 only, /me wonders what it would
> >> require to offer other arches (aarch64, ppc64le, s390x) as well
> >>
> > 
> > If we need to support platform not supported in virt-preview, we
> > need to chage the requirement so it is used only on x86_64.
> > 
> > Victor, would you like to send a patch?
> I believe there was a good reason to bump the libvirt requirement in
> the vdsm package (some bugfix). Ideally, virt-preview should be build
> for s390 as well.
> If I'm not mistaking, the script
> https://github.com/crobinso/build-fedora-virt-preview is used to build
> the RPMs and populate the repository.
> 
> Dan, Cole: what would it take to run this on the fedora-390 build
> machine?

after a brief look the script needs to be made multi-arch-aware (it
hard-codes x86_64 in some places), when it calls mock, and then it
needs some HW (we have ppc64le and s390x even now, aarch64 might take
a while), overall it looks doable to me. Cole, what do you think?


		Dan