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

[Jiri Denemark]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:39:27 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> 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:

I think the second option, i.e., installing the directories as root:root
and dropping chown() from qemu driver is the best solution here. We have
per-domain directories so there's no reason to keep the parent owned by
qemu_group.

Jirka