Libguestfs - Aug 2012 - Status of libguestfs in Fedora, RHEL

Just a note (mainly to get it clear for *me*!) where we are with
libguestfs branches and Fedora/RHEL versions:

Fedora
  ?
  ??? Fedora 16              libguestfs 1.16 (currently 1.16.29)
  ?
  ??? Fedora 17              libguestfs 1.18 (currently 1.18.6)
  ?
  ??? Fedora 18 (just        libguestfs 1.19.28, will move to
  ?            branched)     stable 1.20 branch when it is ready
  ?
  ??? Rawhide                follows development releases as usual

Unfortunately a combination of factors make testing releases in Fedora
18+ impossible right now:

  - NTFS breakage with the new kernel (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/844485)
  - DWARF symbols are broken, making it challenging to run any valgrind
    tests

The unfortunate result is that Fedora 18+ releases aren't tested to
our usual high standards.

RHEL
  ?
  ??? RHEL 5                 ancient libguestfs 1.2
  ?     ?                    (DO NOT USE this version except with virt-v2v,
  ?     ?                     and even then it's far better to use RHEL 6)
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? EPEL 5           libguestfs 1.19 from oldlinux branch, will
  ?                          move to 1.20 when it is ready
  ?
  ?
  ??? RHEL 6
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.0         libguestfs 1.2 (no longer supported, DO NOT USE)
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.1         libguestfs 1.7.17 (no longer supported)
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.2         libguestfs 1.7.17 (no longer supported)
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.3         libguestfs 1.16.19 + RHEL patches
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.4         rebase along libguestfs 1.16 stable branch
  ?     ?
  ?     ??? RHEL 6.5         unknown, possibly rebase to 1.20 if
  ?                          there is time and any demand for it
  ?
  ?
  ??? RHEL 7                 intending to go with libguestfs 1.20

Rich.

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Just a note (mainly to get it clear for *me*!) where we are with
> libguestfs branches and Fedora/RHEL versions:
thanks for the summary -- I found it useful as well ;)

-- Russ herrold