[libvirt] gnutls regression in vircrypto

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 15 08:26:37 UTC 2018


On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:15:18AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Since commit 799011bbe7 ("vircrypto: Rely on GnuTLS for hash functions")
> the function "gnutls_hash_fast" is used. According to the documentation
> at https://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Cryptographic-API.html this
> function is only available since version 2.10.0. But m4/virt-gnutls.m4
> expects at least 2.2.0. Please either revert that change, or bump also
> the required gnutls version.

FWIW, per our distro support policy, I think we can increase min version
to require the 3.x series of gnutls, which would let us drop a bunch of
hacks.

What distro are you using that lacks even gnutls == 2.10.0, as it sounds
like that is going to be considered unsupported from libvirt POV ?

Regards,
Daniel
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