[PATCH v1] remove sysconfig files

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 21 14:15:22 UTC 2021


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:13:32AM -0400, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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.

The upstream RPM spec file is the one used for RHEL and Fedora, so
this is clearly the scope.

Regards,
Daniel
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