Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Refactor the libvirt RPM daemon pieces

On 03/30/2012 12:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:13:13PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: >> With the current setup, you can install the "libvirt" package, and it >> will just use/present whichever hypervisors happen to be installed on >> the machine. With the new setup, if you have qemu-kvm and lxc installed >> on the machine, then install "libvirt", you won't get the libvirt driver >> for either of these - you'll need to explicitly install libvirt-qemu and >> libvirt-lxc. This may cause surprises for people who already have >> bootstraps that just install "qemu-kvm" and "libvirt". > No, that's not the case. The behaviour of 'yum install libvirt' is > identical before & after. You won't get the 'libvirt-daemon-kvm' > package installed, but that's fine, because that's an empty > virtual package. That will be the case with the current changes, but will it still be true even after we switch to providing a separately compiled module for each hypervisor driver? (that's actually the case I was thinking about, not the current case)

BTW, you've probably already fixed it, but I just found that packaging.html fails to validate (haven't investigated, since it's very likely you already encountered it too)