[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt-devel should only require libvirt-client

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 17:28:58 UTC 2009


There's a long known issue where if you install libvirt in a guest,
the default virtual network will conflict with the default virtual
network in the host.

That's one of the reasons we have the libvirt-client RPM - it allows
you to install the client library without having the host side
installed.

Rich Jones points out that if you install libvirt-devel in a guest,
then you get libvirtd installed and the network conflict:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/531200

libvirt-devel should only require libvirt-client - e.g. nothing in
the devel package pertains to anything in the libvirt RPM. The Fedora
packaging guidelines say:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Devel_Packages

  Devel packages must require the base package using a fully versioned
  dependency ...

But for all intents and purposes, libvirt-client is our base RPM.

* libvirt.spec.in: make libvirt-devel require libvirt-client
---
 libvirt.spec.in |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 6cd0888..7e1550e 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
 %package devel
 Summary: Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library
 Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: libvirt = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: libvirt-client = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: pkgconfig
 %if %{with_xen}
 Requires: xen-devel
-- 
1.6.2.5




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