[fedora-virt] A couple of bugs in the new qemu 1.4.0 package in Rawhide

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:18:02AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> Firstly the %if condition here doesn't work for me.  For some reason
> it still wants me to install perl-podlators (which doesn't exist on
> Fedora 18):
> 
>   %if 0%{?fedora} > 18
>   BuildRequires: perl-podlators
>   %endif
> 
> I don't understand why it doesn't work, since on the same machine:
> 
>   $ rpm --eval '%{?fedora}'
>   18
> 
> Is "018" treated as an impossible octal number?  My suggestion is to
> just BR the programs directly.  The upstream code seems to need
> pod2man, so:
> 
>   BuildRequires: /usr/bin/pod2man
> 
> Secondly, /usr/bin/qemu-kvm is now a script:
> 
>   $ cat /usr/bin/qemu-kvm 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   
>   exec /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86 -machine accel=kvm "$@"

I wouldn't be surprised if this causes SELinux problems, since the
SELinux policy restricts what QEMU is allowed to exec.

> The problem is that /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86 doesn't appear to exist.
> Did you mean /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_84, or is there a missing
> runtime Requires in the package?


Daniel
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