[fedora-virt] QEMU new Package

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:12:10PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:43:55PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 18:11 -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > Hi guys.
> > > 
> > > I've built a qemu image in here:
> > > 
> > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1102151
> > > 
> > > It contains the basic work to get qemu package updated. Basically,
> > > we're talking about getting the qemu code from svn
> > ...
> > 
> > Another thing to watch out for is the guidelines for numbering
> > pre-release snapshots:
> > 
> >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packages
> > 
> > According to those, I think this should be 0.9.2-0.1.svn6392 rather than
> > 0.9.1-svn6392.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mark.
> > 
> I have a new test package in here:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1105051
> 
> I haven't updated the name yet, but this is easy.
> Apart from that, the .rpm are useless, as they don't include the firmware
> images. (we don't want to ship the binary anyway, which was what current qemu
> were doing).

This is going to be harder to address for QEMU than it was with KVM.
With KVM we only needed to build a native firmeware. For QEMU you
need to build a PPC firmware to go along with the x86 build of the
PPC emulator, etc. Not clear how we'd manage this very easily since
we don't have cross compilers for every QEMU arch.

> I'll work on it tomorrow. I plan to grab the various pieces needed to compile
> the firmwares and other binaries, and colocate them in the same srpm as qemu.
> 
> We can use separate packages if we must, but I don't see a big push for it.
> We already separate the one which is most likely to be useful for someone else
> (pxes).
> 
> But I'm open to suggestions.

Can you upload the src.rpm somewhere - when you do a scratch build
from the local src.rpm, koji annoyingly does not make it available
on the task page.

Daniel
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