[PATCH 2/2] rpm: Drop unnecessary libiscsi runtime dependency

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 15:52:38 UTC 2021


On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 13:48 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:38 PM Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:58:09 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > +++ b/libvirt.spec.in
> > > @@ -614,7 +614,6 @@ volumes using the host iscsi stack.
> > >  Summary: Storage driver plugin for iscsi-direct
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core = %{version}-%{release}
> > >  Requires: libvirt-libs = %{version}-%{release}
> > > -Requires: libiscsi
> > 
> > The explicit dependency was added by Andrea 2.5 years ago, perhaps he
> > had reasons to do so. Any comments Andrea?
> 
> It most likely dates back to when Fedora had two providers of libiscsi
> sharing the same soname. That situation no longer exists today. Other
> distributions also don't have that issue.

I didn't offer much in the way of explanation for the change in

  commit fe5b35c6b29dc952babf4436ccba83c4a0ffa82e
  Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 14 14:31:35 2018 +0200

    spec: Enable the iscsi-direct storage driver conditionally

    Most distributions we build RPMs on don't ship a
    recent enough version of libiscsi, so we can't enable
    the driver unconditionally. Add an explicit dependency
    on the runtime package while at it.

    Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>

so I can only guess that I was mistakenly thinking the runtime
dependency would not be added automatically.

Under the assumption that Neal has already verified the set of
runtime dependencies is exactly the same, on all RPM-based targets,
before and after this patch has been applied,

  Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>

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