[PATCH V6 10/11] spec: Remove libvirt-daemon dependency from hypervisor subpackages

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 17:32:58 UTC 2023


On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 10:05:01AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 1/4/23 02:14, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 02:22:14PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> > > Remove the libvirt-daemon dependency from the various
> > > libvirt-daemon-<hypervisor> subpackages, replacing it with a set of the
> > > new sub subpackages providing the same functionality.
> >
> > Maybe we could add something like
> >
> >    New deployments will be leaner, as storage locking support is no
> >    longer included by default. This is consistent with the fact that
> >    it always needed to be turned on manually after installation.
> >
> > for completeness' sake.
>
> Good point, although it shows a flaw in what I already wrote since the same
> functionality is NOT provided. I've incorporated your words and changed the
> commit message to:
>
>   Remove the libvirt-daemon dependency from the various
>   libvirt-daemon-<hypervisor> subpackages, replacing it with a set of the
>   new sub subpackages providing similar functionality.
>
>   One notable change is storage locking support is no longer included by
>   default. The libvirt-daemon-lock and libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd
>   subpackages must be installed separately. This is consistent with the
>   existing requirement to manually enable storage locking after installation.

Looks excellent, thanks!

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization



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