On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 15:12 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Currently, the daemon requires libvirt-admin.so because the functions encoding/decoding RPC messages for admin APIs live there. But this makes it very hard to split admin API into its own separate package: if libvirt-admin.so is going to live in a separate package than the daemon, either both packages must be installed or none. Solve this by statically linking the RPC message handling functions with the daemon.
I don't see the problem with having the daemon depend on libvirt-admin.so - it already depends on libvirt.so after all, and for example in Debian that is reflected by having the libvirt-daemon package (which contains libvirtd) depend on libvirt0 (which contains libvirt.so). It would just be a matter of adding a dependency on libvirt-admin0, or whatever the package would end up being called. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization