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> From: Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List 
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 03/18/2016 04:57 AM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [new-project][gate] devstack-plugin-
> additional-pkg-repos
> 
> Hi All,
>     I just wanted to update everyone on a new devstack-plugin that 
allows us to
> install alternate versions of libvirt(and qemu) into a devstack.
> 
> The motivation for this started in a Vancouver summit session but got 
more
> steam from from[2].  There is a project-config[3] change to add an 
experimental
> job to use this.
> 
> The current state is that the plugin will install libvirt+qemu from 
Ubuntu
> Cloud Archive (liberty) and that's pretty mush it.
> 
> I admit with Ubuntu 16.04 coming out RSN the utility of this is limited 
but
> that's just the first step.
> 
> Some of the design considerations were:
>  * Decouple the building of $packages from the devstack run
>  * Use distrubution packages not tarballs etc
>  * The plugin is a framework that allows this to be used (for example) 
by
>    Neutron to test OVS[4]
> 
> Short term TODO list:
> 1) Add support for virt-preview on Fedora-23 [should happen next week]
> 2) Use libvirt packages other than UCA [realistically post summit]
> 
> Longer term TODO list:
> 1) find a home in the big tent
> 2) test all the things
> 3) Use this for Neutron to test OVS
>     - Is there and existing package repo we can test on trusty?
> 
> So it you're interested in helping out or using the plugin reach out!
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/devstack-
> plugin-additional-pkg-repos
> [2] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-November/079679.html

> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/289255/
> [4] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-January/083947.html

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Thanks for this Tony! 
The libvirt testing job which makes use of that can be found at [1]
(not yet merged). To ensure a repeatability of the job, the version of 
the additional package should be somehow controllable by the testing 
job itself (maybe by another env variable "version" or dedicated libs;

    "/devstack/lib/libvirt1.2.16-qemu1.2.3" instead of 
    "/devstack/lib/libvirt"

But that's a thing I'd like to do after the experimental testing job 
runs successfully with the current happy path.

References:
[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/289255/

Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)