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

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?