[libvirt] [jenkins-ci] guests: Add support for openSUSE Leap 15.1

[Jim Fehlig]

On 11/19/19 11:56 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:01 AM Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/19/19 3:32 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 00:21 +0000, Jim Fehlig wrote:

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>>>> +++ b/guests/host_vars/libvirt-opensuse-15.1/main.yml
>>>> +package_format: 'rpm'
>>>> +package_manager: 'zypper'
>>>> +os_name: 'openSUSE'
>>>> +os_version: '15.1'
>>>
>>> So, about the naming.
>>>
>>> What I would have done here is
>>>
>>>     os_name: 'OpenSUSE'
>>>     os_version: '15'
>>>
>>> The intial capital letter in os_name goes against the actual branding
>>> for openSUSE so I'm not perfectly happy with it, but on the other
>>> hand it's very useful when defining mappings because package formats
>>> all start with a lowercase letter and all OS names start with an
>>> uppercase letter. So I would try to stick with that convention.
>>
>> Ok, no problem.
>>
>>> As for os_version, if you look at all existing entries we use the
>>> major version number only: eg. we have CentOS7 instead of CentOS7.7
>>> and FreeBSD12 instead of FreeBSD12.1: this makes sense because, as
>>> the guest gets updated over time, it will naturally pick up the
>>> latest minor release. Will this work for openSUSE too?
>>
>> I suppose so. Although for example Leap 15.2 will have a different kernel (5.3.
>> vs 4.12), different install path
>> (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/), etc. Is that okay?
> 
> It depends a lot on what's the OpenSUSE policy of its distro. Once
> 15.2 is out, what happens to 15.1? Is this just a "minor" update? Will
> 15.1 still be supported or are people expected to just update /
> upgrade to 15.2?

15.1 will continue to be actively supported alongside 15.2 for six months after 
the release of 15.2. The lifecycle is described here

https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime

Perhaps it is best to just support the latest Leap release plus openSUSE 
Tumbleweed? I.e. I send a patch to replace the 15.1 machine with 15.2 once it is 
released.

Regards,
Jim