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

-- 
Paul Jenner <psj(a)familyjenner.co.uk&gt;

[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 <jforbes(a)redhat.com&gt;
To: fedora-virt(a)redhat.com
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