[libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/24] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

[Jim Fehlig]

On 9/13/19 9:28 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 13:58 +0000, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> On 9/13/19 2:56 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>>> Jim, does SLES 12 have
>>> Python 3?
>>
>> Yes, python 3.4.6. And python 2.7.13.
> 
> That's *amazing* news! \o/
> 
>>> And, as a side note: do you think you could find the time to add
>>> OpenSUSE support to the libvirt-jenkins-ci project? That'd be very
>>> useful, because it makes grepping for this kind of information
>>> trivial, and also would open the door to running actual CI jobs on
>>> the OS :)
>>
>> I have internal jobs but agreed it would be nice to have openSUSE included in
>> upstream CI on vanilla upstream :-). Any pointers on how to do that?

Sorry for the delay. Thanks again for the below info!

> Good to hear you're willing to help with this effort! I've been
> wanting to introduce OpenSUSE support myself for a very long time,
> but unfortunately I've never quite managed to scrap together the
> necessary time.
> 
> The repository is
> 
>    https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-jenkins-ci.git
> 
> and most of the stuff you'd have to touch is inside the guests/
> subdirectory; more specifically, you're definitely going to have to:
> 
>    * add OpenSUSE 12 and 15 to inventory and host_vars/;
> 
>    * write an AutoYaST configuration file that can be used to install
>      a minimal OpenSUSE guest without user interaction and add it to
>      the configs/ directory along with the existing preseed and
>      kickstart configurations;
> 
>    * add mappings from abstract package names, such as 'dtrace', to
>      the corresponding OpenSUSE concrete package names, such as
>      'systemtap-sdt-devel', to vars/mappings.yml;

I've completed these steps.

>    * test installation and see what breaks, fix it, rinse and
>      repeat :D

But I'm still in the wash, rinse, repeat cycle :-). I'm able to 'lcitool 
install' an openSUSE Leap 15.1 guest, still working on 'lcitool update'.

Nonetheless I thought I'd send out my WIP before calling it a week. Any comments 
on what I have thus far is appreciated.

Regards,
Jim

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