[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/5] configure: Require GnuTLS

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 12:51 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 06/06/2018 11:44 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > The lxc route sounds like a decent stop-gap measure until either
> > the current box is upgraded or everything is moved off to a new
> > box running CentOS 7, whenever that might be.
> 
> I think this is actually the right solution. To either upgrade old box
> to CentOS 7 or to move to new box running it.

Of course it is. We're talking stop-gap measures here :)

> Another idea that I had was to not require GnuTLS-3.2.0 every time. I
> mean, what are the reasons we want GnuTLS? For better TLS in general
> (where it makes sense to require 3.2.0 or newer) and for PRNG (where
> 1.2.0 or what is it that CentOS 6 has is sufficient). So what I am
> suggesting is loosen the minimal requirement to whatever version CentOS
> 6 has unless remote/qemu drivers are built in which case 3.2.0 or newer
> is required.

If that doesn't end up looking *too* disgusting it's certainly
a possiblity.

I still like the container route better because, as mentioned
elsewhere in the thread, it would allow us to drop CentOS 6
entirely from the CI environment.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization