[PATCH V4 10/11] spec: Remove libvirt-daemon dependency from hypervisor subpackages

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 05:35:46AM -0500, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 04:42:08AM -0500, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:03:41AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> > >  %package daemon-qemu
> > >  Summary: Server side daemon & driver required to run QEMU guests
> > >
> > > +    %if %{with_modular_daemons}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-log = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-lock = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %else
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %endif
> > >
> > >  %package daemon-kvm
> > >  Summary: Server side daemon & driver required to run KVM guests
> > >
> > > +    %if %{with_modular_daemons}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-log = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-lock = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %else
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %endif
> > >
> > >  %package daemon-lxc
> > >  Summary: Server side daemon & driver required to run LXC guests
> > >
> > > +    %if %{with_modular_daemons}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %else
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %endif
> > >
> > >  %package daemon-xen
> > >  Summary: Server side daemon & driver required to run XEN guests
> > > +    %if %{with_modular_daemons}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-lock = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %else
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %endif
> > >
> > >  %package daemon-vbox
> > >  Summary: Server side daemon & driver required to run VirtualBox guests
> > > +    %if %{with_modular_daemons}
> > > +Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %else
> > >  Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
> > > +    %endif
> >
> > So the xen driver doesn't use virtlogd, and the lxc and vbox drivers
> > don't use locking either? It's nice that we're making some of the
> > deployments leaner by default :)
> >
> > I wonder if we could leave the locking part out for *all* of the
> > above, with the rationale that it's something that you have to
> > explicitly enable at the configuration file level anyway. But I guess
> > that wouldn't work too well when it comes to updates. Maybe after
> > Enough Time™ has passed?
> 
> Actually, since after your changes the libvirt-daemon package still
> depends on libvirt-daemon-log, libvirt-daemon-lock and all the new
> packages that contain files that were originally in that package, I
> think the upgrade scenarios are taken care of by that and we could
> trim down the libvirt-daemon-{qemu,kvm,xen} packages like I suggested
> above. Dan, what do you think?

Something needs to be pulling in libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd for
the upgrade to work, otherwise upgrades will loos the loadable
module they were potentially using.

With regards,
Daniel
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