[libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH 0/3] Drop CentOS 6, which makes some nice cleanups possible

[Michal Privoznik]

On 04/06/2018 03:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> This applies on top of
>>
>>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-April/msg00410.html
>>
>> and, of course, should only be pushed after
>>
>>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-April/msg00326.html
>>
>> or a follow-up version has been pushed.
> 
> It just occurred to me that libvirt.org is running on CentOS 6, and we
> rely on being able to run  configure, make & make dist there, so that
> we can do things like publish the website, create nightly snapshots,
> etc. So even if we don't support /running/ libvirt on CentOS 6, we'll
> need to make sure we can at least do minimal builds - doesn't need
> hypervisors enabled, as long as make dist still works.  So I think it
> is probably worth keeping at least the core libvirt build on CentOS 6
> CI, even if we turn off the sub-project like language bindings.
> 

Alternatively, we can upgrade libvirt.org to centos 7.

Michal