Excerpts from Chris Friesen's message of 2014-07-16 11:38:44 -0700: > On 07/16/2014 11:59 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: > > On 07/16/2014 07:27 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > > >> This is a really good point. As someone who has to deal with packaging > >> issues constantly, it is odd to me that libvirt is one of the few places > >> where we depend on upstream packaging. We constantly pull in new python > >> dependencies from pypi that are not packaged in ubuntu. If we had to > >> wait for packaging before merging the whole system would grind to a halt. > >> > >> I think we should be updating our libvirt version more frequently vy > >> installing from source or our own ppa instead of waiting for the ubuntu > >> team to package it. > > > > Shrinking in terror from what I'm about to say ... but I actually agree > > with this, There are SEVERAL logistical issues we'd need to sort, not > > the least of which involve the actual mechanics of us doing that and > > properly gating,etc. But I think that, like the python depends where we > > tell distros what version we _need_ rather than using what version they > > have, libvirt, qemu, ovs and maybe one or two other things are areas in > > which we may want or need to have a strongish opinion. > > > > I'll bring this up in the room tomorrow at the Infra/QA meetup, and will > > probably be flayed alive for it - but maybe I can put forward a > > straw-man proposal on how this might work. > > How would this work...would you have them uninstall the distro-provided > libvirt/qemu and replace them with newer ones? (In which case what > happens if the version desired by OpenStack has bugs in features that > OpenStack doesn't use, but that some other software that the user wants > to run does use?) > > Or would you have OpenStack versions of them installed in parallel in an > alternate location?
Yes. See: docker, lxc, chroot. (Listed in descending hipsterness order). _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
