On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/8/22 17:37, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 1:53 AM David Marchand <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:21 PM Gregory Rose <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > xenserver/openvswitch-xen.spec.in < > http://openvswitch-xen.spec.in> > > > > > > This is a bit of an issue. Does anyone even use xenserver anymore? > > > All of the documentation and build instructions are really old and > > > I wonder of they work anymore. I have no xenserver build > environment > > > to test any changes. > > > > Same for me. > > > > Ben, Ilya, do you know if this xenserver packaging still has users? > > The last comment about it was in 2017. > > fefb757ce408 ("debian, xenserver: Update logrotate config to match > RHEL.") > > > > Should we keep on updating it? or can we simply drop support for > > xenserver packaging? > > > > I'd be inclined to drop it. I have heard so little about xenserver (or > XCP, which > > I think is its successor) over the last few years. It makes me a bit > sad, since > > that's where Open vSwitch started out (in a few cases I literally had to > > disassemble bits of its binaries to understand what was going on), but > the > > world moves on. > > It seems like there is a newer open-source XCP-ng project that is > more or less active. There is also proprietary Citrix Hypervisor, > of course. Both seems to have OVS as a default networking solution > and both seems to use some version of OVS 2.5.3. Here is a repo > for XCP-ng one: > https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/openvswitch > > They are not using our spec file though. And have some custom > patches on top. Not sure about Citrix Hypervisor, but I found some > more or less recent security hotfixes referencing openvswitch package > like this one: > > https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX306423/hotfix-xs82e022-for-citrix-hypervisor-82 > > So, yes, someone is still using it, but they are using about 5 year > old version at this point and they are not using upstream spec file I guess they're not really using anything we're working on now. I think this still supports dropping it. I'm sure we'd welcome them back if they asked. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
