On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:21 PM David Michael <fedora.dm0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:40 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 3:22 PM David Michael <fedora.dm0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > And these would need to be updated for Fedora 38:
> >
> >
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-kvm-ioctls/commits
> >
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-timerfd/commits
>
> The package for the timerfd crate has been removed ("retired") from
> Fedora 38 and rawhide because no packages used it for over a year.
> It would need to be un-retired. Since I retired it only four weeks
> ago, that would not require a package re-review yet.
> I was the previous maintainer, so if you need a timerfd package, I can
> submit the paperwork to add back the package.
Okay, I could also submit the request to be the primary maintainer
since Firecracker is the only user of it, but if you want to take the
package again, that would be helpful. I'll send PRs and branch
requests for the other crate repos. Here are review requests for the
new crates, mostly unmodified from automatically generated specs:
I've also filed the paperwork to get rust-timerfd un-retired:
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11354
Great, I'll go through the reviews over the next days.
> > On a different note, I don't know if Firecracker in
Fedora will meet
> > the requirements of the project I am working on long term--we'll
> > likely end up on podman+krun. I will still be working on it for the
> > near future, but I'd like to avoid adding ~15 new packages and having
> > to orphan them in a few months because I no longer use them. If I
> > submit review requests, would anyone (or the SIG itself) co-maintain
> > the crates and/or Firecracker in case I am no longer able to use them
> > later? Should I ask on the devel list instead? Otherwise I think I
> > should probably just maintain the builds in Copr.
>
> If people think that having Firecracker packages available in Fedora
> is worthwhile, then sure, the Rust SIG (so at this point, mostly me)
> will keep library dependencies and Firecracker itself in working
> order.
> *hint hint*
https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe
The project owner sponsored you, thanks for all your help.
Awesome, this was a very nice surprise :) Thanks!
Fabio