[ovirt-devel] fc27 job failing on missing vmconsole

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/2018 08:16 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_master_check-patch-fc27-x86_64/
>> is failing since yesterday on
>>
>> Error:
>>  Problem 1: conflicting requests
>>   - nothing provides ovirt-vmconsole >= 1.0.0-0 needed by
>> vdsm-4.20.11-7.git4a7f18434.fc27.x86_64
>>
>> after already passing in the past.
>>
>> Can this be solved on ovirt-vmconsole side, or should we disable fc27 (again)?
>
> Speaking as maintainer of ovirt-console, it is a good chance to review
> what's the status of ovirt-vmconsole, and how we can improve things for
> the current state and for the future.
>
> ovirt-vmconsole is pretty stable codewise and featurewise (and, I'd say,
> bugwise), in the last 12+ months I hardly gathered material for another
> minor release (would be 1.0.5), which
> is not planned yet, as further proof that the codebase is stable.
>
> Most of time, the only thing needed is to ship the existing packages for
> a new distro release. It seldom may be needed a simple rebuild.
>
> I must say I'm not aware of how the current issue was solved for fc26,
> IIRC some manual intervation was applied along the lines above.
> Can we automate this step somehow?

Barak and Sandro can surely help with regards to fc27, and may have
ideas on how to automate this to future releases.