[libvirt] [PATCH] spec file enhancements for minimal "client-only" build

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 10:15:44 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:55:40PM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> Attached is a patch to add some additional options to the spec file,  
> allowing for more flexibility when building.
> With this patch, it allows you to build a "client-only" version of  
> libvirt for machines that may have an interest in communicating over the  
> remote driver, but do not have a hypervisor themselves.
>
> It enables command line overrides of control variables for the build
[...]

The patch certainly looks sensible, +1.

I don't know whether we'd carry this in the Fedora specfile (which is
currently almost identical to the specfile distributed with libvirt
apart from the %changelog section).  I guess that Daniel Veillard
would have to answer that ...

Rich.

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