[PATCH] docs: Add man page for libvirt-guests

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Mon Jan 10 21:52:34 UTC 2022


On 1/10/22 07:30, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 02:38:15PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> +++ b/docs/manpages/meson.build
>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ docs_man_files = [
>>     { 'name': 'virtvboxd', 'section': '8', 'install': conf.has('WITH_VBOX') },
>>     { 'name': 'virtvzd', 'section': '8', 'install': conf.has('WITH_VZ') },
>>     { 'name': 'virtxend', 'section': '8', 'install': conf.has('WITH_LIBXL') },
>> +  { 'name': 'libvirt-guests', 'section': '8', 'install': true },
> 
> I would have expected
> 
>    'install': conf.has('WITH_LIBVIRTD')

Agreed, but I was lazy and went with the status quo.
> here but I see that we actually install the script and its unit file
> unconditionally. I think that might be a bug, but it also looks like
> the script supports starting/stopping *remote* guests when the host
> power cycles? That'd be an interesting setup :)

IMO it is a bug. I was less lazy in V2 and included a patch the only installs 
libvirt-guests when also building libvirtd

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-January/msg00399.html

> You should make sure to tweak libvirt.spec.in so that the manual page
> gets included in RPM packages.

Nod. I also verified CI passed against V2 :-)

https://gitlab.com/jfehlig/libvirt/-/pipelines/445122167

Regards,
Jim




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