[PATCH v1] remove sysconfig files

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Jul 21 14:13:32 UTC 2021


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:07:58PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 03:16:39AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Also pre-existing: do we even care about handling upgrades from
> > versions of the daemon that didn't have support for systemd socket
> > passing at this point? The .spec file explicitly limits support to
> > RHEL 8 and Fedora 33, which should be plenty recent enough to make
> > the entire dance unnecessary.
>
> Yes, we need to support upgrades. RHEL only gained socket
> activation in 8.3 (IIRC), and so we need this logic to support
> upgrades from RHEL-7.x or 8.0-8.2

Thinking about this a bit more: is our expectation that you'd be able
to upgrade from your distro-provided libvirt package to one built
from upstream sources? I would definitely consider that to be an
unsupportable, out of scope scenario.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization





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