On 07/15/2014 04:29 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Doing an out-of-the-box build on RHEL 5 is the oldest configuration >> still actively (if marginally) supported, ideally for as long as RHEL 5 >> remains a live platform (several more years to go). We have build-bots >> that ensure that we can build on RHEL 5, although I'm not sure if those >> buildbots are exercising 'make rpm' to test the older parts of the spec >> file. Historically, RHEL 5.10 is based off of libvirt-0.8.2, and that >> was the release in use during Fedora 13. So it's _definitely_ worth >> culling any conditionals older than F13; but stuff between F13 and F18 >> might be shared with RHEL 5, and therefore more effort to cull the >> Fedora side while still leaving the RHEL side intact. > > Yes, and you'll note in my change that I didn't change anything that > affected EL based releases. In terms of F-13 style tags you should be > capturing that in appropriate and equivalent EL tags to ensure you get > right and consistent conditionals for the appropriate release as > opposed to relying on a translation as you have EL conditionals there > already.... why mix the two. Not sure I follow you here; a patch may be worth more than words (and I'm planning on posting a tentative patch soon). >> Anyone else on the libvirt list have an opinion on how far back we can >> clean without annoying people that are slow on the upgrade to modern Fedora? > > You have known users that are actively upgrading to the latest libvirt > and no other components on old versions of Fedora? I don't honestly know - which is why I'm asking the list if anyone reading here would care if we pruned F18 code.