[libvirt] [PATCH] build: commit to 0.10.0 release naming

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Aug 1 19:27:09 UTC 2012


On 08/01/2012 01:18 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:00:35AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> With 0.10.0-rc0 out the door, we are committed to the next version
>> number.
>>
>> * src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.14): Rename...
>> (LIBVIRT_0.10.0): ...to this.
>> * docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix fallout.
>> * src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDriver): Likewise.
>> * src/remote/remote_driver.c (remote_driver): Likewise.
>> ---
>>
>> I almost pushed this under the trivial rule, but realized that
>> anyone that builds an app against rc0 will be binary incompatible
>> with the .so post-patch.  Are we okay declaring that rc0 is
>> unsupported so the ABI break is okay, or do I need to respin
>> the .syms portion of this patch to keep the LIBVIRT_0.9.14
>> label even though we had no 0.9.14 release?
> 
> If rc1 won't be too far in the future (so it can be pushed into distros)
> just changing the symbol names is probably good enough.

DV said that rc1 might be as much as 3 weeks away.  If distros want to
push rc0 out the door, and we decide to go with this patch as-is, then
distros should backport this patch on top of rc0 for minimal pain.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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