libvirt in F18?

[Eric Blake]

[cc'ing Cole, who is building libvirt for Fedora]

On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/11/2012 08:46 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>> After doing a yum upgrade on my desktop from F17 to F18, libvirtd
>>> would not start up (see below for the errors from the log)  I grabbed
>>> libvirt 0.10.1-2 from koji and things are working now.  Was there some
>>> other fix that would have gotten things working again?
>>
>> Just an unfortunate side effect of when alpha froze; where netcf and
>> libvirt have to be upgraded in lockstep to either both use libnl1 or
>> libnl3, but the freeze happened to catch netcf at libnl3 but libvirt at
>> libnl1.  For more details,
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853381
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
>>>  Is there a
>>> reason that libvirt 0.10.1-2 hasn't been submitted as an update?
>>
>> It _has_ been submitted as an update;
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, 0.10.1 doesn't appear at:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt
> 
>> it's just that updates-testing
>> can't be merged yet due to branching rules of the alpha freeze, without
>> declaring 853381 as an alpha blocker, but I don't think the blocker
>> rules apply to this one (IIRC, we don't have to self-host virtualization
>> until beta, at which point this would be a blocker).
> 
> While updates that are in updates-testing wouldn't make it into the
> DVD or Live images, a yum upgrade like I did includes everything from
> updates-testing, and even if it didn't I would have enabled
> updates-testing after the F17->F18 upgrade.
> 

This may also be an issue where F18 updates-testing vs. Rawhide vs. the
fedora-virt-preview repo need some careful syncrhonization.  Cole?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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