Accepting request 886076 from home:bfrogers:branches:Virtualization

- 6.0.0 qemu is about to be released. Add comments to the in- package support documents (supported.<arch>.txt) about the new deprecations as of that release as an early head's up for qemu users. These deprecations include these command-line options: -M option: kernel-irq-chip=off -chardev tty -chardev paraport -enable-fips -writeconfig -spice password=string OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/886076 OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/qemu?expand=0&rev=635
2021-04-16 15:47:25 +00:00 · 2021-04-16 15:47:25 +00:00 · 4d7bbe2c05
commit 4d7bbe2c05
parent 12286f39d2
5 changed files with 59 additions and 21 deletions
--- a/qemu.changes
+++ b/qemu.changes
@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr 15 17:19:42 UTC 2021 - Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
+
+- 6.0.0 qemu is about to be released. Add comments to the in-
+  package support documents (supported.<arch>.txt) about the new
+  deprecations as of that release as an early head's up for qemu
+  users. These deprecations include these command-line options:
+  -M option: kernel-irq-chip=off 
+  -chardev tty 
+  -chardev paraport 
+  -enable-fips 
+  -writeconfig 
+  -spice password=string
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 13 19:17:26 UTC 2021 - Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>

--- a/supported.arm.txt
+++ b/supported.arm.txt
@ -146,8 +146,9 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  This website tracks feature deprecation and removal at the upstream
  development level. Our qemu package inherits this community direction, but be
  aware that we can and will deviate as needed. Those deviations and additional
-  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation is also tracked
-  in Appendix B of the qemu-doc.* files installed with the qemu package.
+  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation as well as
+  removed features are also tracked in the "QEMU System Emulator User's Guide"
+  section of the documentation installed with the qemu package.

 - The use of "?" as a parameter to "-cpu", "-soundhw", "-device", "-M",
  "-machine" and "-d" is now considered deprecated. Use "help"
@ -173,6 +174,13 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  -device virtio-blk,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -realtime mlock= (use -overcommit mem-lock- instead)
+  (the following are early notices of deprecation in a future qemu version)
+  -M option kernel-irq-chip=off
+  -chardev tty (use serial name instead)
+  -chardev paraport (use parallel name instead)
+  -enable-fips (not really helpful - see https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=166310299a1e7824bbff17e1f016659d18b4a559 for details)
+  -spice password=string (use password-string option instead)
+  -writeconfig (no replacement - never really worked right)

 - These previously supported command line options are no longer supported:
  <previously mentioned items have been moved to another category>
--- a/supported.s390.txt
+++ b/supported.s390.txt
@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  This website tracks feature deprecation and removal at the upstream
  development level. Our qemu package inherits this community direction, but be
  aware that we can and will deviate as needed. Those deviations and additional
-  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation is also tracked
-  in Appendix B of the qemu-doc.* files installed with the qemu package.
+  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation as well as
+  removed features are also tracked in the "QEMU System Emulator User's Guide"
+  section of the documentation installed with the qemu package.

 - The use of "?" as a parameter to "-cpu", "-soundhw", "-device", "-M",
  "-machine" and "-d" is now considered deprecated. Use "help"
@ -164,10 +165,17 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  considered deprecated. In the future those names will be standardized to
  acpitable, boot, and smp respectively.

- This previously supported command line option is now considered deprecated:
+- These previously supported command line options are now considered deprecated:
  -device virtio-blk,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -realtime mlock= (use -overcommit mem-lock= instead)
+  (the following are early notices of deprecation in a future qemu version)
+  -M option kernel-irq-chip=off
+  -chardev tty (use serial name instead)
+  -chardev paraport (use parallel name instead)
+  -enable-fips (not really helpful - see https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=166310299a1e7824bbff17e1f016659d18b4a559 for details)
+  -spice password=string (use password-string option instead)
+  -writeconfig (no replacement - never really worked right)

 - These previously supported command line options are no longer supported:
  <previously mentioned items have been moved to another category>
--- a/supported.x86.txt
+++ b/supported.x86.txt
@ -165,8 +165,9 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  This website tracks feature deprecation and removal at the upstream
  development level. Our qemu package inherits this community direction, but be
  aware that we can and will deviate as needed. Those deviations and additional
-  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation is also tracked
-  in Appendix B of the qemu-doc.* files installed with the qemu package.
+  information can be found in this section. Feature deprecation as well as
+  removed features are also tracked in the "QEMU System Emulator User's Guide"
+  section of the documentation installed with the qemu package.

 - When no video adapter is specified, the default used is stdvga. This differs
  from the default of prior releases which was cirrus. The cirrus adapter was
@ -211,6 +212,13 @@ Deprecated, Superseded, Modified and Dropped Features
  -device virtio-blk,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi= (use virtio-scsi instead)
  -realtime mlock= (use -overcommit mem-lock= instead)
+  (the following are early notices of deprecation in a future qemu version)
+  -M option kernel-irq-chip=off
+  -chardev tty (use serial name instead)
+  -chardev paraport (use parallel name instead)
+  -enable-fips (not really helpful - see https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=166310299a1e7824bbff17e1f016659d18b4a559 for details)
+  -spice password=string (use password-string option instead)
+  -writeconfig (no replacement - never really worked right)

 - These previously supported command line options are no longer supported:
  <previously mentioned items have been moved to another category>
--- a/update_git.sh
+++ b/update_git.sh
@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ set -e

 #==============================================================================

+clean_up_temp_dirs()
+{
+echo "Cleaning temporary files before exit"
+rm -rf $GIT_DIR
+rm -rf $CMP_DIR
+rm -rf $BUN_DIR
+exit
+}
+
+# handle signals gracefully by cleaning the temporary data used before exit
+trap clean_up_temp_dirs EXIT
+
+#==============================================================================
+
 check_requirements() {
    RC=0
    if [[ ! -e ./config.sh ]]; then
@ -815,15 +829,6 @@ fi

 #==============================================================================

-clean_up_temp_dirs()
-{
-rm -rf $GIT_DIR
-rm -rf $CMP_DIR
-rm -rf $BUN_DIR
-}
-
-#==============================================================================
-
 if [[ ! -e $(readlink -f ${LOCAL_REPO_MAP[0]}) ]]; then
    echo "No local repo found at ${LOCAL_REPO_MAP[0]}"
    if [ "$GIT_UPSTREAM_COMMIT_ISH" = "LATEST" ]; then
@ -952,7 +957,6 @@ if [ "$GIT_UPSTREAM_COMMIT_ISH" = "LATEST" ]; then
        else
           if [ "$1" ]; then
               echo "ERROR: unrecognized option '$1'. Script in LATEST mode only recognizes 'pause' and 'continue' options"
-               clean_up_temp_dirs
               exit
           fi
        fi
@ -985,7 +989,6 @@ if [ "$GIT_UPSTREAM_COMMIT_ISH" = "LATEST" ]; then
            echo "continue after rebase selected but tarball is out of date. Continuing not possible."
            echo "If desired, save your rebase work (eg, branch $GIT_BRANCH), because otherwise it will"
            echo "be lost. Then run script again without the continue option"
-            clean_up_temp_dirs
            exit
        fi
        redo_tarball_and_rebase_patches &> ~/latest.log # This includes a bundle2local
@ -996,7 +999,6 @@ if [ "$GIT_UPSTREAM_COMMIT_ISH" = "LATEST" ]; then
            if [[ "$PAUSE_BEFORE_BUNDLE_CREATION" = "1" ]]; then
                echo "Feel free to also do the work now occasioned by the selected 'pause' option"
            fi
-            clean_up_temp_dirs
            exit
        fi
        CONTINUE_AFTER_REBASE=1
@ -1005,7 +1007,6 @@ if [ "$GIT_UPSTREAM_COMMIT_ISH" = "LATEST" ]; then
        echo "As requested, pausing before re-creating bundle of bundles for additional patch or specfile work"
        echo "(using current 'ready to go' $GIT_BRANCH branch of local repos to produce patches.)"
        echo "When changes are complete, finish the workflow by passing 'continue' to script"
-        clean_up_temp_dirs
        exit
    fi
    if [ "$CONTINUE_AFTER_REBASE" = "1" ]; then
@ -1051,5 +1052,4 @@ else # not LATEST
            ;;
    esac
 fi
-clean_up_temp_dirs
 exit