[libvirt] python pypi package - backport older version?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 14:15:59 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:56:46PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 07:51:00AM -0500, Jason Antman wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > First off, thanks for the wonderful project, and thanks even more for
> > all of the excellent work on the Python bindings lately.
> > 
> > I'm working on a small project to collect data on kvm hosts/guests via a
> > python collector client and display the data in a web interface. It
> > works beautifully when using my various distros' OS packages for
> > libvirt-python, but I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to do automated
> > testing. I'm quite happy to see libvirt-python packaged as a python
> > package and on pypi, but the version there is 1.2.0, which requires
> > libvirt >= 0.9.11.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I was planning to test my python app on travis-ci, which
> > runs Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS), and the latest version of libvirt for
> > that is 0.9.8 (package python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.13).
> > 
> > If I were to submit a patch, would there be any interest in me
> > backporting the setup.py/packaging work to an older version of the
> > python bindings - say 0.9.8 - and getting it published on pypi?
> 
> It is not practical to support any version older than 0.9.11.
> The code generator requires that the API XML description files
> be installed by libvirt and it did not do that prior to the
> 0.9.11 release
> 
> For older distros just use the libvirt-python APIs that were
> bundled with that distros' version fo libvirt.

BTW Canonical provide an add-on  "Cloud Archive" repository for
the LTS release which includes updated versions of OpenStack,
QEMU/KVM and libvirt. So if you need the updated libvirt it might
be an option to use that repo.

Daniel
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