[libvirt] Enable kvm on aarch64, Cleanup F-16/18 conditionals

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Jul 18 17:29:49 UTC 2014


FWIW I sent patches to libvir-list for the power64 macro change and the
aarch64 change.

On 07/15/2014 07:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 04:29 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> Doing an out-of-the-box build on RHEL 5 is the oldest configuration
>>> still actively (if marginally) supported, ideally for as long as RHEL 5
>>> remains a live platform (several more years to go).  We have build-bots
>>> that ensure that we can build on RHEL 5, although I'm not sure if those
>>> buildbots are exercising 'make rpm' to test the older parts of the spec
>>> file.  Historically, RHEL 5.10 is based off of libvirt-0.8.2, and that
>>> was the release in use during Fedora 13.  So it's _definitely_ worth
>>> culling any conditionals older than F13; but stuff between F13 and F18
>>> might be shared with RHEL 5, and therefore more effort to cull the
>>> Fedora side while still leaving the RHEL side intact.
>>
>> Yes, and you'll note in my change that I didn't change anything that
>> affected EL based releases. In terms of F-13 style tags you should be
>> capturing that in appropriate and equivalent EL tags to ensure you get
>> right and consistent conditionals for the appropriate release as
>> opposed to relying on a translation as you have EL conditionals there
>> already.... why mix the two.
> 
> Not sure I follow you here; a patch may be worth more than words (and
> I'm planning on posting a tentative patch soon).
> 
>>> Anyone else on the libvirt list have an opinion on how far back we can
>>> clean without annoying people that are slow on the upgrade to modern Fedora?
>>
>> You have known users that are actively upgrading to the latest libvirt
>> and no other components on old versions of Fedora?
> 
> I don't honestly know - which is why I'm asking the list if anyone
> reading here would care if we pruned F18 code.
> 




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