[Libguestfs] [p2v PATCH 15/15] virt-p2v.pod: explain how to bring iSCSI LUNs to the disk selection dialog

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 09/23/22 14:36, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 09/23/22 12:14, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 09/23/22 11:54, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
>>> (2) Should we drop Gtk2 support?  I kept this around to allow virt-p2v
>>> to be compiled on RHEL <= 6.  RHEL 5 in particular needs Gtk 2.10,
>>> which even for Gtk 2 is an old version.  Those RHEL releases had
>>> support for some old hardware, especially some old HP Smart Array
>>> devices, which was dropped in newer RHEL, making it impossible to
>>> convert physical machines using those devices.
>>>
>>> However the move to PCRE2 means that we can no longer compile on RHEL 6
>>> (RHEL 7 is still OK).  Gtk2 itself went out of support in 2021 [0],
>>> although that is not very relevant.
>>>
>>> If we had a customer who wanted support for the old devices, perhaps
>>> it is better to look for a modern distro that still supports them and
>>> would have Gtk 3, PCRE 2, etc.  Perhaps Fedora or Debian.
>>
>> I'll look into removing gtk2 support from virt-p2v.
> 
> Can I drop "contrib/build-p2v-iso.sh" altogether?
> 
> I found this script by grepping the tree for "gtk2". We no longer seem
> to be building the p2v ISO on RHEL (any major release), and on Fedora, I
> don't use this script. I propose we remove it.

... For that matter, the entire contrib/ subdir appears obsolete.

Laszlo