[RFC] qemu-kvm packaging changes [Fwd: [Bug 509532] Move /usr/bin/qemu-kvm into the qemu-kvm package]

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi,

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/509532 for some qemu-kvm packaging
changes proposed for Fedora 12

Basically, it means that we'll be moving the /usr/bin/qemu-kvm binary
from the qemu-system-x86 package to the qemu-kvm package

Any comments?

Cheers,
Mark.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:19:50PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/509532 for some qemu-kvm packaging
>  changes proposed for Fedora 12
>  
>  Basically, it means that we'll be moving the /usr/bin/qemu-kvm binary
>  from the qemu-system-x86 package to the qemu-kvm package
>  
>  Any comments? 
I think this is a bad move. We put the qemu-kvm binary in the system-x86
package between the intention is that all KVM support eventually ends up
in the qemu-system-x86_64 binary itself and thus 'qemu-kvm' either goes
away completely or becomes a mere symlink. 

The 'qemu-kvm' sub-RPM would not even exist if it had not been re-added
to workaround broken comps.xml definition. The qemu-system-x86 RPM 
should have just had a 'Provides: qemu-kvm' tag listed instead of having
an empty sub-RPM added.

Daniel
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[Mark McLoughlin]

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:19:50PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/509532 for some qemu-kvm packaging
>  > changes proposed for Fedora 12
>  > 
>  > Basically, it means that we'll be moving the /usr/bin/qemu-kvm binary
>  > from the qemu-system-x86 package to the qemu-kvm package
>  > 
>  > Any comments?
>  
>  I think this is a bad move. We put the qemu-kvm binary in the system-x86
>  package between the intention is that all KVM support eventually ends up
>  in the qemu-system-x86_64 binary itself and thus 'qemu-kvm' either goes
>  away completely or becomes a mere symlink. 
>  
>  The 'qemu-kvm' sub-RPM would not even exist if it had not been re-added
>  to workaround broken comps.xml definition. The qemu-system-x86 RPM 
>  should have just had a 'Provides: qemu-kvm' tag listed instead of having
>  an empty sub-RPM added. 
Okay, "qemu-kvm should go away eventually" works for me

That suggests qemu-kvm is probably a bad name for comps requirement -
e.g. it could just be 'qemu-system', meaning the appropriate
qemu-system-* package for this arch.

That's not a big deal, though - we'll figure that out when we can
eventually do away with qemu-kvm

Thanks,
Mark.