[kernel-xen] xen-4.3.1-0.2 pushed to testing repo.

[Steven Haigh]

I have good news and bad news.

It seems yum completely ignores the %pre section of the rpm scripting
when installing. This means that if I abort in the %pre section, then
the rest of the packages still get installed - yum just warns about a
failed scriptlet.

This means even though the scriptlet aborts, the installation continues
- meaning you still have orphan DomUs running.

This means the ONLY option is to kill / restart DomUs on installation -
which I'm not very comfortable with.I could create xen43-* packages as a
workaround - which would mean manual intervention - however with Xen 4.4
already being in testing, that would also later on mean xen44-* packages
as well...

Thoughts of the list?

On 24/01/14 20:33, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just pushed xen-4.3.1-0.2 to the testing repo. Changelog:
> * Fri Jan 24 2014 Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> - 4.3.1-0.2
> - Add check to abort install on major/minor version update with DomUs
> running
> - XSA-83 (CVE-2014-1642) - Out-of-memory condition yielding memory
> corruption during IRQ setup
> 
> This should detect if we are upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3 and refuse to
> install if DomUs are running. This stops us from losing control of the
> DomUs after an upgrade.
> 
> As always, feedback welcome....
> 
> On 16/01/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've had chance to build up a Xen 4.3.1 set of packages and push them to
>> the testing repo for feedback.
>>
>> Initial tests seem to show everything working - although feedback welcome.
>>
>> Testing repo file:
>> http://au1.mirror.crc.id.au/repo/el6/testing.repo
> 
> 
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