On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
IOW, I think the problem needs to be raised & addressed in context of the Fedora and systemd communities, rather than having libvirt diverge from normal Feora packaging practice.
I absolutely agree with you, and I fully intend to push for these changes (or comparable ones) to be implemented in systemd, where they belong and from where they can benefit more than just us.
That said, timing is a concern. Fedora 38 and RHEL 9.2 are both on libvirt 9.0.0 at the moment, so they haven't been hit by the issue yet, but new releases for both are just around the corner and I have little confidence that we'd be able to push the necessary changes through in time. So a local solution seems like the only plausible way that we can avoid breaking user's deployments.
If we at least start the discussion, we can get feedback on whether the idea is likely to gain traction, or there are other things we have overlooked
I can open an issue on the systemd side pointing to these patches, but polishing things up to the level of a proper PR is off the table right now because I simply can't allocate enough time for it. Would you consider that good enough to move forward with the libvirt changes? On the Fedora side, I wouldn't know what forum would be the most appropriate to get the discussion started. Any pointers? -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization