Virtualization comps group in f11

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Apr 27 17:29:44 UTC 2009


Glauber Costa (glommer at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:23:20AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 26 2009, Kevin Fenzi said:
> > > - Is there a unexpected yum behavior here? Or is a virtual provides not
> > >   allowed in a comps group?
> > 
> > The list of package names in groups of the  comps file are just that,
> > package names.  Provides, filenames, etc are not allowed[1]
> this is my bad then. I believe it were perfectly valid.
> 
> Formerly, we were installing qemu-system-x86 and qemu-system-ppc, to allow
> for virtualization in both platforms we support kvm. But then some users
> were confused about system-ppc being installed in x86...
> 
> We can go back to this scheme if it is better.

qemu-kvm could be a virtual package with no files that just Requires:
the proper system emulator.

Bill




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