[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] spec: Move virt-admin into its own package

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 14:07:19 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 15:53 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > By the way, should mingw-libvirt.spec.in updated to ship
> > the virsh and virt-admin binaries in separate -client and
> > -admin packages?
>> > Does shipping a mingw version virt-admin even make sense,
> > given that AFAIK it doesn't (yet) work on remote daemons?
> 
> Well, I didn't add it to the mingw spec file for that^ specific reason,
> but according to
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-July/msg00022.html it
> broke the the build on mingw apparently.

I assume any breakage would have been caused by the fact
that the libvirt-admin DLL and header files were missing;
those should definitely be included in the package.

What I'm wondering is whether the virt-admin executable
should be shipped at all.

> However, I wouldn't bother
> splitting the packages to -client and -admin on mingw at the moment,
> it's just not worth it IMHO.

I don't have a strong opinion either way, I just though
I would bring it up for discussion :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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