Re: [fedora-arm] Package: libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18 Tag: f18 Status: failed Built by: pbrobinson

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:08:50PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:00:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:30:22PM +0000, Fedora ARM Koji Build System wrote:
> > > > > Package: libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18
> > > > > Tag: f18
> > > > > Status: failed
> > > > > Built by: pbrobinson
> > > > > ID: 94669
> > > > > Started: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:17:50 UTC
> > > > > Finished: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:28:41 UTC
> > > > >
> > > > > libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18 (94669) failed on hsv-yosemite-1-1-v5tel (arm), cdot-guru-2-1 (noarch), cdot-panda-11-4-v7hl (armhfp):
> > > > >   BuildError: error building package (arch armv7hl), mock exited with status 30; see root.log for more information
> > > > > SRPMS:
> > > > >   libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18.src.rpm
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > > Task Info: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1152283
> > > > > Build Info: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=94669
> > > >
> > > > The error in this case is:
> > > >
> > > > DEBUG util.py:257:  Error: Package: 2:qemu-system-arm-1.2-0.2.20120806git3e430569.fc18.armv7hl (build)
> > > > DEBUG util.py:257:             Requires: libusbredirparser.so.0
> > > >
> > > > which is a "well-known" qemu error that's being going on even
> > > > in mainline F18 for several weeks.
> > > >
> > > > I guess this is probably not the error you mean though?
> > >
> > > With the new qemu to fix the above I now get
> > >
> > > DEBUG util.py:257:   --> parted-3.1-7.fc18.armv7hl
> > > DEBUG util.py:257:  Error: Package:
> > > 2:qemu-system-x86-1.2.0-3.fc18.armv7hl (build)
> > > DEBUG util.py:257:             Requires: sgabios-bin
> > > DEBUG util.py:257:  Error: Package:
> > > 2:qemu-system-x86-1.2.0-3.fc18.armv7hl (build)
> > > DEBUG util.py:257:             Requires: seabios-bin >= 0.6.0-2
> > >
> > > I don't remember that before but we don't have the s*bios bits. Not
> > > sure if there's a way we can special case the qemu-system-x86 bits or
> > > if you have some other idea.
> >
> > Unfortunately seabios is pulled in from (at least) two places.
> >
> > (1)
> >   $ grep qemu-kvm libguestfs.spec 
> >   BuildRequires: qemu-kvm >= 2:1.1.0
> >   Requires:      qemu-kvm >= 2:1.1.0
> >
> > These can be fixed.  We just want to ensure that we have qemu >= 1.1.0.
> > It could be satisfied instead by qemu-system-arm >= 1.1.0 on arm.
>
> FYI for libguestfs builds which have libvirt support enabled,
> the intent is that it is sufficient for you to have a requires
> on 'libvirt-daemon-qemu'  (or libvirt-daemon-kvm). This will
> pull in all the pieces of libvirt + related packages sufficient
> to run QEMU (or KVM) guests. So you won't need to dep on QEMU
> directly yourself.

This is true (if we assume Fedora >= 18, which is what we're talking
about).  I made this change in Rawhide which will make its way into
Fedora 18 in due course:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/commit/?id=2440e1c44e30a2f...

Note that virt-rescue still runs qemu/qemu-kvm directly w/o libvirt.

Rich.