[libvirt] [PATCH] spec: don't package product dirs

[Martin Kletzander]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:12:56PM +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
>
>
>On 13.11.2017 11:35, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:35:45AM +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
>>> Directories /var/{lib,cache}/libvirt/qemu/ are created by libvirtd on
>>> start and their owner:group is changed according to the config. Thus
>>> no need to include them in libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu package. Otherwise
>>> we see noisy "directory changed" on rpm -V for the package.
>>> ---
>>> libvirt.spec.in | 2 --
>>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
>>> index a3bd77f..e20f65c 100644
>>> --- a/libvirt.spec.in
>>> +++ b/libvirt.spec.in
>>> @@ -1911,8 +1911,6 @@ exit 0
>>> %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf
>>> %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/libvirtd.qemu
>>> %ghost %dir %attr(0700, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/run/libvirt/qemu/
>>> -%dir %attr(0751, %{qemu_user}, %{qemu_group}) %{_localstatedir}/lib/libvirt/qemu/
>>> -%dir %attr(0750, %{qemu_user}, %{qemu_group}) %{_localstatedir}/cache/libvirt/qemu/
>>> %{_datadir}/augeas/lenses/libvirtd_qemu.aug
>>> %{_datadir}/augeas/lenses/tests/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
>>> %{_libdir}/%{name}/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_qemu.so
>>
>> I agree, however I think this should be done on all subdirectories of
>> %{_localstatedir}/{cache,lib}/libvirt/.  That directories are owned by
>> libvirt-daemon and libvirt-libs respectively, so it should be OK.
>
>I don't think we can generalize this patch for other hypervisors. For example
>lxc don't create "%{_localstatedir}/lib/libvirt/lxc/" in runtime thus this
>directory need to be installed.
>

We created the qemu/ dir and changed the permissions because domains needed to
access stuff inside it.  Nowadays we actually create per-domain subdirectories
so to fix this we could just remove the chmod() call from qemu driver.

>I also give this patch more thought and think we can fix issue differently.
>
>- use %ghost directive just like for run dir so that we cleanup on uninstall additionally
> or
>- install dir as root:root and don't change owner at runtime. Why do we need
>to make lib and cache group:owner qemu:qemu in the first place? Looks like
>we only store qemu caps cache and domain screenshots in cache and both files
>are created by daemon itself. And lib dir only have directories which
>in turn created by daemon too:
>
>[localhost]# ls dir
>boot  dnsmasq  filesystems  images  libxl  lockd  lxc  network  qemu  sanlock  uml  xen

Honestly, I'm not sure how those details work in the specfile, maybe Jirka
(Cc'd) could share some more thoughts.

Martin
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