<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-03-05 6:44 GMT+01:00 stan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net" target="_blank">stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":l3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">So it shouldn't be a problem to use the fedora packages directly. And<br>
they would have the patches already.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nope, the patches are not currently upstream and we don't have any release date. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":l3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden"><span class=""><br>
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</span>I wonder if the qemu at virt-preview is a master package, that only<br>
installs other packages. I'm not a packager, but I think there are<br>
packages that are sort of like virtual functions.<br><span class=""><br></span></div></blockquote><div>what exactly is a master package? i googled it and didn't find any explanation </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":l3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden"><span class="">
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</span>So, because you already have 2.5.0, you don't actually need to update<br>
in order to patch?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes that's exactly this. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":l3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">
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I think at this point you've exhausted me as a resource, and need<br>
someone more knowledgeable. Because, what I would do would be to<br>
download the fedora packages to the local machine (they're at 2.5.0-8),<br>
and install them using the dnf -C upgrade command. That way, you get<br>
the patches without any need to mess around with source packages. It<br>
might mess up the virt-preview repo if you need it in future. But if<br>
your system is running without the qemu package from virt-preview, you<br>
don't need it, and can get back in sync with fedora. As a precaution,<br>
you could get the binary packages for the qemu stuff you have installed<br>
from virt-preview. And if you have to downgrade because the fedora<br>
packages don't work, you could just do a dnf -C downgrade with those<br>
packages.<br>
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But it is possible I don't really understand your issue, and that might<br>
be the wrong thing to do.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Finding someone with specific knowledge would be hard, i tried the vfio mailing list 4days ago but didn't get any answer and they're pretty much the only ones who will know this.<br>Actually i could remove everything from virt-preview if i knew what's needed for libvirt to run, will probably end up doing this anyway but i hoped for more insight, was a bit worry to break my system.</div></div>