Re: [libvirt] [jenkins-ci] guests: Add support for openSUSE Leap 15.1

On 11/19/19 11:56 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:01 AM Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; wrote: >> >> On 11/19/19 3:32 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >>> On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 00:21 +0000, Jim Fehlig wrote: [...] >>>> +++ b/guests/host_vars/libvirt-opensuse-15.1/main.yml >>>> +package_format: 'rpm' >>>> +package_manager: 'zypper' >>>> +os_name: 'openSUSE' >>>> +os_version: '15.1' >>> >>> So, about the naming. >>> >>> What I would have done here is >>> >>> os_name: 'OpenSUSE' >>> os_version: '15' >>> >>> The intial capital letter in os_name goes against the actual branding >>> for openSUSE so I'm not perfectly happy with it, but on the other >>> hand it's very useful when defining mappings because package formats >>> all start with a lowercase letter and all OS names start with an >>> uppercase letter. So I would try to stick with that convention. >> >> Ok, no problem. >> >>> As for os_version, if you look at all existing entries we use the >>> major version number only: eg. we have CentOS7 instead of CentOS7.7 >>> and FreeBSD12 instead of FreeBSD12.1: this makes sense because, as >>> the guest gets updated over time, it will naturally pick up the >>> latest minor release. Will this work for openSUSE too? >> >> I suppose so. Although for example Leap 15.2 will have a different kernel (5.3. >> vs 4.12), different install path >> (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/), etc. Is that okay? > > It depends a lot on what's the OpenSUSE policy of its distro. Once > 15.2 is out, what happens to 15.1? Is this just a "minor" update? Will > 15.1 still be supported or are people expected to just update / > upgrade to 15.2? 15.1 will continue to be actively supported alongside 15.2 for six months after the release of 15.2. The lifecycle is described here https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime Perhaps it is best to just support the latest Leap release plus openSUSE Tumbleweed? I.e. I send a patch to replace the 15.1 machine with 15.2 once it is released.