Re: Stable branch releases?

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Anthony Liguori wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
Glauber Costa wrote:

As we're getting close to kvm-xxx anyway, maybe we could forget this number scheme, and adopt something that tracks linux. This way, you know exactly what kernel a released is based on. Something in the lines of kvm-29.1 for updates to the .29 series, (of course _this_ scheme is bad, because it brings clashes)

It also ignores qemu, which is larger contributor to user visible features...

Maybe stable releases should have separate packages for kvm and qemu: kvm-modules-2.6.29.1 and qemu-kvm-0.9.1.17. Users would pick the latest of each, and would only need to upgrade a component that's changed.

Yes, this would be IMHO the best overall solution. Can we take kvm-userspace maint/2.6.29 and call it qemu-kvm-0.9.1-1? Most users don't need newer kernel modules if they have a relatively recent distro.


There's a slight snag here. The kernel module wants bits from the userspace package (the backward compatibility kit and makefiles); the userspace package wants some kernel bits (header files).

I think we can work around it by using 'git symbolic-ref'. kvm.git would have a maint/2.6.29 branch, which would have an alias called maint/0.9.1. Similarly, kvm-userspace.git would have a branch called maint/0.9.1, with an alias called maint/2.6.29. Commits into one would automatically appear on the other.

This sound reasonable?

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