[fedora-virt] QEMU new Package

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:15:00PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > So, in summary:
> > 
> >   qemu-img
> >     - /usr/bin/qemu-img
> > 
> >   qemu-common:
> >     - /usr/bin/qemu-nbd
> >     - docs
> >     - BIOSes
> >     - keymaps
> >     - init script
> > 
> >   qemu-system-x86:
> >     - /usr/bin/qemu
> >     - qemu-system-x86_64
> >     - /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
> > 
> >   qemu-system-arm:
> >     - qemu-system-arm
> > 
> >   qemu-system-cris:
> >     - qemu-system-cris
> > 
> >   qemu-system-m68k
> >     - qemu-system-m68k
> > 
> >   qemu-system-mips
> >     - qemu-system-mips
> >     - qemu-system-mips64
> >     - qemu-system-mips64el
> >     - qemu-system-mipsel
> > 
> >   qemu-system-ppc 
> >     - qemu-system-ppc
> >     - qemu-system-ppc64
> >     - qemu-system-ppcemb
> > 
> >   qemu-system-sh
> >     - qemu-system-sh4
> >     - qemu-system-sh4eb
> > 
> >   qemu-system-sparc
> >     - qemu-system-sparc
> > 
> >   qemu-linux:
> I believe qemu-user suits better upstream name usage. Other than that,
> I think this proposal is sound.
> 
> Also, there has been a proposal by ajax in #fedora-devel to have a "qemu-native"
> package, that would install native emu/virt for whatever architecture you're running at.
> 
> What do you guys think of this? 

There's no need for a package for that. Just conditionally add

  Provides: qemu-native

to the appropriate qemu-system-XXX  sub-RPM according to the arch you're 
building on.

Daniel
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