Re: [libvirt PATCH] spec: libvirt-daemon: Add optional dependency on *-client

The libvirt-daemon subpackage contains libvirt-guests.sh script (used by libvirt-guests service), which requires virsh to actually work. But since dynamic libraries were separated from libvirt-client to libvirt-libs more than 6 years ago, libvirt-daemon no longer requires virsh to be installed. So unless libvirt-client is explicitly installed (either manually or by installing the libvirt meta package), libvirt-guests will not work. Just adding libvirt-client as a dependency of libvirt-daemon would go against the original idea behind splitting libvirt-client: users may not want to install or use any client binaries on the host where the daemon runs (either they just use various language bindings or access the daemon remotely). To solve this we could possibly turn libvirt-daemon into an empty package and separate the daemons and libvirt-guests into subpackages to make sure we support both use cases, but marking libvirt-client as Recommended for libvirt-daemon does the same job in a much simpler way.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2136591 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt;

--- libvirt.spec.in | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 0bbcdb8956..450f50f5b5 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -441,6 +441,12 @@ Summary: Server side daemon and supporting files for libvirt library # The client side, i.e. shared libs are in a subpackage Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release} +# The libvirt-guests.sh script requires virsh from libvirt-client subpackage, +# but not every deployment wants to use libvirt-guests service. Using +# Recommends here will install libvirt-client by default (if available), but +# RPM won't complain if the package is unavailable, masked, or removed later. +Recommends: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release} + # netcat is needed on the server side so that clients that have # libvirt < 6.9.0 can connect, but newer versions will prefer # virt-ssh-helper. Making this a Recommends means that it gets -- 2.38.1