Re: [fedora-virt] a few comment about the current virt pacakges

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:04:28PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:23:06PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:23:01AM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >>>>> - libvirt BR qemu. why? which require all qemu package which require >>>>> openbios-ppc, vgabios, bochs-bios-data, etherboot-*. so this is a >>>>> dependency hell. imho it'd be useful to clean up! >>>> The build process wants QEMU so its a BR. There is no dependancy hell >>>> here unless you're using the wrong tools. mock trivially pull in the >>>> chain of deps as needed during build, so there's nothing to 'clean up'. >>> i can't build (since i don't have ppc) but i need it for qemu-system-ppc >>> which is needed by qemu which is needed by libvirt:-( >>> are you sure all of these req and br are required? >> You're not making any sense here. You don't need a ppc host, to build >> qemu-system-ppc. All host architectures can build all QEMU targets, >> you're not restricted to matching host & qemu target, with the exception >> of KVM. > i wrote above i can't build openbios-ppc which required by qemu etc...so > i can't build libvirt:-( Then just disable the qemu-system-ppc bits in QEMU. It really isn't hard to remove the ppc sub-RPM and change the target-list for the QEMU build to turn off ppc.