[PATCH 0/7] spec: Decompose the daemon subpackage

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:19:31PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 12/11/22 10:46, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > I think we should just have a libvirt-daemon-common package that
> > includes what you currently have put into the libvirt-daemon-client
> > package plus these files, and have all hypervisor drivers depend on
> > it directly.
>
> Taking a cue from the storage driver, I called it libvirt-daemon-core
> (patches 4-6) in the original RFC
>
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-November/235924.html
>
> But I'm fine with libvirt-daemon-common too :-). I'll change it in V2 while
> addressing the other comments.

I wasn't unable to find a document that contains a formal policy on
this, but my understanding is that foo-core is a stripped-down
version of foo that only contains the very basic functionality, while
foo-common is stuff needed by foo and doesn't do anything useful on
its own.

Based on this reading, libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core and
libvirt-daemon-common are the appropriate names for the respective
packages.

Anyone with actual RPM packaging experience, please call me out if
I'm spouting nonsense :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization