ANNOUNCE: Rawhide virt repo for F12 users

[Justin Forbes]

As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the
locations have changed.

We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like
to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g.

$> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
  [rawvirt]
  name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
  baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0
  EOF
  $> yum update

At the moment, it contains the F-13 versions of libvirt and virt-manager, but
as F-13 development continues, it will contain more. I'll send periodic
mails to the list detailing the latest updates.

A couple of improvements have been made this time around.  Namely
packages are build with mock instead of koji so that new packages can be
used a BuildRequires for other new packages.  Also new builds are
triggered by successful koji builds of tracked packages against
dist-rawhide, so the process is a bit more automated.

Also, this is still a work-in-progress. The TODO list includes:

- include debuginfo packages in the repo (need more quota)

- find a better location than jforbes.fedorapeople.org

Comments most welcome. Help with the TODO list is even more welcome :-)

Thanks,
Justin M. Forbes

[Paul Jenner]

Hi Justin.

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 15:56 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the
> locations have changed.
>
> We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like
> to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g.
>
> $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
>   [rawvirt]
>   name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
>   baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
>   enabled=1
>   gpgcheck=0
>   EOF
>   $> yum update

I guess you have this on the list but the wiki page should be updated to
match the new repo location:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

It is referenced from the F12 release note - Section 5.3.12.2.
Virtualization Technology Preview Repo - but still points users at the
F11 repo.

I would do it myself but I don't have a wiki login (poor excuse for not
getting one I know :-))

Paul

[Justin Forbes]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 20:43 +0000, Paul Jenner wrote:
> Hi Justin.
>
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 15:56 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the
> > locations have changed.
> >
> > We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like
> > to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g.
> >
> > $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
> >   [rawvirt]
> >   name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
> >   baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
> >   enabled=1
> >   gpgcheck=0
> >   EOF
> >   $> yum update
>
> I guess you have this on the list but the wiki page should be updated to
> match the new repo location:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
>
> It is referenced from the F12 release note - Section 5.3.12.2.
> Virtualization Technology Preview Repo - but still points users at the
> F11 repo.
>
> I would do it myself but I don't have a wiki login (poor excuse for not
> getting one I know :-))

Thanks for pointing that out.  Looks like someone got to it before me,
but things look correct now.

Justin

[Boris Derzhavets]

Upgrade to Libvirt on F12 via suggested repo makes it unusable by Xen 3.4.1 (2) installed
via xen-3.4.1-5.fc12.src.rpm. Is it supposed to happen ?  The highest libvirt version coming with F12 and good for Xen is 0.7.1-15.

Boris.

________________________________
From: Justin M. Forbes 
To: [e-mail]
Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 12:56:30 AM
Subject: [fedora-virt] ANNOUNCE: Rawhide virt repo for F12 users

As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the
locations have changed.

We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like
to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g.

$> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
  [rawvirt]
  name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
  baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0
  EOF
  $> yum update

At the moment, it contains the F-13 versions of libvirt and virt-manager, but
as F-13 development continues, it will contain more. I'll send periodic
mails to the list detailing the latest updates.

A couple of improvements have been made this time around.  Namely
packages are build with mock instead of koji so that new packages can be
used a BuildRequires for other new packages.  Also new builds are
triggered by successful koji builds of tracked packages against
dist-rawhide, so the process is a bit more automated.

Also, this is still a work-in-progress. The TODO list includes:

- include debuginfo packages in the repo (need more quota)

- find a better location than jforbes.fedorapeople.org

Comments most welcome. Help with the TODO list is even more welcome :-)

Thanks,
Justin M. Forbes

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[Andrés García]

Hi,

I've tried the repo but it can't download the lastest virt-manager since 
it can't
find the required virtinst.

I can download it myself but I wanted to point it out in case it isn't 
meant to
be so.

Regards,
Andres

[Cole Robinson]

On 12/09/2009 05:07 AM, Andrés García wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried the repo but it can't download the lastest virt-manager since
> it can't
> find the required virtinst.
>
> I can download it myself but I wanted to point it out in case it isn't
> meant to
> be so.
>
> Regards,
> Andres

Hmm, looks like python-virtinst isn't present in the virt-preview repo (I'm
looking at http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/x86_64/). Justin,
maybe your scripts need a tweak?

- Cole

[Justin Forbes]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 12/09/2009 05:07 AM, Andrés García wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried the repo but it can't download the lastest virt-manager since
> > it can't
> > find the required virtinst.
> >
> > I can download it myself but I wanted to point it out in case it isn't
> > meant to
> > be so.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andres
>
> Hmm, looks like python-virtinst isn't present in the virt-preview repo (I'm
> looking at http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/x86_64/). Justin,
> maybe your scripts need a tweak?

Thanks for the heads up.  Rebuilds are triggered on koji build alert
emails, and I had the alerts setup wrong for python-virtinst.  Should be
correct now, and I have pushed the current version to get the repository
up to date.

Thanks,
Justin