[libvirt] PATCH Fix BuildRequires in spec file

Trent Johnson trent at oreilly.com
Mon Jun 1 15:52:35 UTC 2009


Should there be some logic added to the spec file then, as it tries to 
package libvirt_parthelper even it if was not built.


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:42:53AM -0500, Trent Johnson wrote:
>> The problem seems to be that when you build libvirt without 
>> e2fsprogs-devel installed, then ./configure for libvirt will detect 
>> with_storage_disk=no
>>
>> Once that happens libvirt will not create the libvirt_parthelper program.
>>
>> Not sure how this can be fixed then.
> 
> That doesn't need fixing in libvirt, that's intended. If the
> parted library fails to link, then we disable the parthelper
> tool
> 
>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:07:14AM -0500, Trent Johnson wrote:
>>>> Fixes error from rpmbuild
>>>>
>>>> RPM build errors:
>>>>    File not found: 
>>>> /var/tmp/libvirt-0.6.3-1.el5-root/usr/libexec/libvirt_parthelper
>>> NACk this program does not use e2fsprogs.  It only uses parted. If you 
>>> have a build problem without e2fsprogs installed, then the bug is in 
>>> parted's RPM not libvirt's. I expect parted-devel, needs a dependancy
>>> on e2fsprogs-devel.
>>>
>>>> diff -u -r  libvirt.spec.orig libvirt.spec
>>>> --- libvirt.spec.orig       2009-04-24 08:58:29.000000000 -0500
>>>> +++ libvirt.spec        2009-05-29 09:57:56.000000000 -0500
>>>> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>>>> Source: libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz
>>>> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
>>>> URL: http://libvirt.org/
>>>> -BuildRequires: python python-devel
>>>> +BuildRequires: python python-devel e2fsprogs-devel
>>>> Requires: libxml2
>>>> Requires: readline
>>>> Requires: ncurses
>>>>
> 
> 
> Danielk




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