[libvirt] In freeze for libvirt-0.9.8 and availability of rc2

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 04:10:34PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On 12/02/2011 01:42 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:11:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> > >>But that means we really are committing to an rc2.
> > >
> > >   Definitely. For example there is apparently a problem with commit
> > >fa9595003d043df9f2efe95521c00898cef27106 that we ough to fix quickly too
> > >to allow further testing :-)
> > >
> > >Daniel
> > >
> > The problem was caused by two threads that both were thinking they
> > are having the buck and entering poll() which caused some clients to
> > hang. It was possible due to a race condition and therefore was not
> > 100% reproducible. It should be fixed now with:
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00116.html
> 
>   Indeed, the current git head works fine again for me, thanks a lot
> for chasing this :-)
> 
>   So I made an second release candidate available at:
> 
> ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.8-rc2.tar.gz
> 
> along with rpms, I also tagged git with it.
>   Hopefully the builds on BSD and Windows should be fixed, it would
> be good if it could be tested on OsX and since there was a build done
> last month on Android, I wonder if this could be done again [1].

The rc2 build now also looks good on Debian's kFreeBSD buildds thanks to
the fixes that went in since rc1:

	https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libvirt&suite=experimental

Cheers,
 -- Guido