On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 01:26:05PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 11:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:24:14PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > I've started building Docker containers with all libvirt build > > > dependencies already installed[1], mainly for use in Travis CI; > > > the CentOS 7 container could easily be used to also solve the > > > issue at hand. > > > > > > I've already tried building libvirt inside said container on a > > > CentOS 6 host running Docker from EPEL without encountering any > > > issue; all that's left to do is install Docker on libvirt.org > > > and script the integration, which shouldn't be too difficult. > > > > > > Does that sound like a sensible way forward? > > > > AFAIK, Docker is explicitly unsupported on CentOS 6 now. > > > > https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/14365 > > Yeah, the Docker version available in CentOS 6 EPEL is fairly old > and I doubt it's getting a lot of updates these days. > > That said, we would be using it exclusively with images we've > crafted ourselves starting from official (and thus arguably > trustworthy) base images, and only to run build jobs locally, so > I'm not sure there's much to be concerned about security-wise. > > > I was actually intending to take a simpler approach - just compile a > > newer gnutls into /opt and let the website build use that. > > Sure, that would probably do the trick as far as libvirt.org itself > is concerned; however, we would not only have to keep CentOS 6 > around in the CentOS CI environment, but also figure out a way to > reproduce the same hack there if we want to make sure changes in > libvirt don't accidentally break building the website. I'd just drop the CI job and we'll deal with problems with the website build if and when we find them Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
