Patching qemu from fedora-virt-preview repo?

[thibaut noah]

2016-03-06 22:20 GMT+01:00 stan <stanl-fedorauser at vfemail.net>:

> This package does not seem to exist.
>
> Weird, dnf is the one that gave me this package number


> I thought you said that the patches were developed by Fedora devs.
> Aren't they then included in the Fedora packages?  I ask because it is
> common for the Fedora kernel to have patches included that have not
> gone upstream yet.  In some cases, they will never go upstream.  I am
> assuming that would be the case here as well.
>

There are not fedora devs, there are redhat devs working on qemu.
Those patches will definitly go upstream but when? That is a good question.

>
> What I know is what I wrote in the paragraph above.  It's speculation.
> And it might not even be called a master package.  It's a package that
> installs other packages, but isn't installed itself.  A meta package.
>
> It doesn't sound like qemu is one of those.  What happens if you try to
> install the qemu package from virt-preview?  You can always say no at
> the prompt.
>

 No package available.
You want something really weird ?
If i don't use the package name and just type dnf install qemu i can
install this specific package coming from this specific repo.

You can do a
> dnf remove libvirt-client
> to see the dependencies for libvirt.  Here, there are none.
>
> It would be really hard to get your system to an unusable state by
> touching only libvirt and qemu packages.  You can always just put it
> back the way it was, because the system will still be functioning.
>

Well, installing qemu actually install a lot more dependencies and upgrade
those already there.
Problem will be to get the source now as it seems yumdownloader --source
qemu failed to get source for 2.5.0-8
Is it possible to decompile the package somehow?
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