Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] lcitool: allow overriding package mappings and target facts

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:16:37AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> lcitool has generally catered to the Libvirt's needs in terms of
> package versions, which are pretty conservative. For example, lcitool
> is hardcoding a version of Meson equal to 0.56. QEMU on the other hand
> has different needs since some features were added to Meson for the
> project's benefit in versions as recent as 0.63.
> 
> Until now, QEMU has managed to avoid the problem by shipping its own
> version of Meson. However, the next release of QEMU will face a breaking
> point in that Meson 0.63 does not work with the 3.6 version of Python
> that is provided by CentOS Stream 8 and OpenSUSE LEAP 15.3.
> 
> Implement locally the functionality provided by
> https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/-/merge_requests/341, so that
> QEMU can override the mappings and target paths that are used for its CI.

I'd like to just push ahead with getting that merged so we
use the lcitool --data-dir arg to do what QEMU needs, and
stay away from the internal python code.

With regards,
Daniel
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