On 02/18/2011 07:37 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
Hi, Libvirt currently fails to start with dnsmasq >= 2.56. since dnsmasq now bails out with empty arguments. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613944
for the Debian bug and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589885
for the upstream reasoning.
Tested with 2.55 and 2.56. O.k. to apply? Cheers, -- Guido
I was worried that this might cause a regression with older dnsmasq, given the previous conversation on this topic: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-December/msg00504.html What's the oldest dnsmasq that libvirt needs to support? I'm guessing dnsmasq 2.45, used in RHEL 5.x, is still relevant. A quick[1] look through that source code: ./src/option.c: {"pid-file", 2, 0, 'x'}, shows that --pid-file has always been an optional_argument[2], which means: --pid-file --pid-file= -x specify no pid file, --pid-file=xyz -xxyz specify xyz as the pid file, and --pid-file '' -x '' have always parsed the '' argument in isolation, and just been ignoring it until this recent change. [1] Would have been quicker if I could have found an online browseable git repository, instead of having to download the tarball from http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/ - but thank heavens for open source guaranteeing that I can at least find the source! [2] Would it hurt dnsmasq to use symbolic constants from <getopt.h> instead of magic numbers? Therefore, ACK to this patch. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org