[libvirt] [PATCH] rpm: create libvirt-wireshark sub-package

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 10:52:15 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:38:53AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 12.02.2014 21:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 02/05/2014 02:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:15:56PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>>On Fedora 20, with wireshark-devel installed, 'make rpm' failed
> >>>due to installed but unpackaged files related to wireshark.  As
> >>>F20 is already released without wireshark, I chose to add a new
> >>>sub-package that is enabled only for F21 and later.  Furthermore,
> >>>all existing wireshark plugins belong to the wireshark package,
> >>>so I got to invent behavior of how the first third-part wireshark
> >>>module will behave.
> >>>
> >>>* libvirt.spec.in (with_wireshark): Add new conditional.
> >>>* configure.ac (ws-plugindir): Improve wording.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> >>>---
> >>>
> >>>I was tempted to push this as a build-breaker fix for 'make rpm',
> >>>but rpms are close enough to black magic that I decided a review
> >>>is safer, after all.  Tested with both F20 (not built) and F21
> >>>(new subpackage built just fine), using normal build of all
> >>>subpackages and also a build with '%client_only 1' in ~/.rpmmacros
> >>>to ensure that it indeed works in a client-only setup.
> >>>
> >>>  configure.ac    |  4 ++--
> >>>  libvirt.spec.in | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>ACK
> >
> >Hmm, should the generic 'libvirt' metapackage also Require: the
> >libvirt-wireshark subpackage, so that we keep the status quo that
> >installing just libvirt pulls in all subpackages?
> >
> 
> Well, I think we should intentionally break that rule here. Otherwise:
> 
> yum install libvirt
> 
> drags in wireshark as a dependency. There wouldn't be anything bad
> about it, except the wireshark plugin is expected to be used by
> developers, not an ordinary users. If I were an ordinary user I'd be
> very curious why I need to install wireshark to run libvirt.

I agree, we should *not* have 'libvirt' depend on the wireshark
plugin. We should treat 'libvirt' as pulling in everything that
it would have done in the past before we split the RPMs. So by
that rationale new functionality is out of scope.

Daniel
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