Re: [libvirt PATCH 5/8] rpm: Remove custom libvirtd restart logic

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:39:39PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > This logic was necessary when socket activation was introduced > in libvirt 5.6.0/5.7.0 in order to guarantee smooth upgrades. > > These days, even the oldest platform that we target ships a > version of libvirtd that implements socket activation, so the > additional code is no longer useful and we can treat libvirtd > the same as all other services. The upgrade path though can come from a platform that we don't support, but we do support upgrade from. eg we don't support RHEL-8, but upgrades from 8 -> 9 are supported. I think it is premature to declare this upgrade code no longer useful.