Debian Bug report logs - #508606
Split virsh to separate package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tuomas Jormola <tj@solitudo.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Split virsh to separate package

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:45:42 +0200

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Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

I think that it would be better to split virsh out from libvirt-bin to
its own packge. Reasoning being libvirtd works fine without local virsh
and that virsh has plenty of uses for remote administering of
hypervisors. On the admin machine you don't necessarily want or need
libvirtd binary at all. One could use virsh on a machine running an
architechture where virtualization is not even supported. In my
environment I only have one machine running virtual machines but several
machines that are used to administer the hypervisor remotely using virsh,
and I hate hate having libvirtd cruft installed on these machines.
		 
The attached patch creates virsh package. Depending your taste, you
might want to make libvirt-bin depend on virsh instead of just
recommending it. Technically, it doesn't require virsh to operate, and
thus it shouldn't depend on the package, but some users may encounter
loss of functionality if virsh suddenly disappears from their system
when upgrading libvirt-bin and not installing all the recommended
packages by default.

If accepted, also maybe libvirt-bin package should be renamed to
libvirtd, as currently libvirtd is the only binary left in the
package...

-- 
Tuomas Jormola <tj@solitudo.net>

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Message #10 received at 508606@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

To: Tuomas Jormola <tj@solitudo.net>, 508606@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#508606: Split virsh to separate package

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:11:15 +0100

tags 508606 - patch
thanks

Hi Tuomas,
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:45:42AM +0200, Tuomas Jormola wrote:
> I think that it would be better to split virsh out from libvirt-bin to
> its own packge. Reasoning being libvirtd works fine without local virsh
I was thinkging about this too but spitting out a single binary looks a
bit like overkill. If we go down this path we should at also rename
libvirt-bin to libvirtd and create a libvirt-bin transitional package
but I'm still not convinced splitting out virsh buys us much. You can
always disable libvirtd.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

Message #15 received at 508606-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

To: 508606-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#508606: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#508606: Split virsh to separate package

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:24:07 +0200

Versions: libvirt/1.2.7-2

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:11:15PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> tags 508606 - patch
> thanks
> 
> Hi Tuomas,
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:45:42AM +0200, Tuomas Jormola wrote:
> > I think that it would be better to split virsh out from libvirt-bin to
> > its own packge. Reasoning being libvirtd works fine without local virsh
> I was thinkging about this too but spitting out a single binary looks a
> bit like overkill. If we go down this path we should at also rename
> libvirt-bin to libvirtd and create a libvirt-bin transitional package
> but I'm still not convinced splitting out virsh buys us much. You can
> always disable libvirtd.

The clients (libvirt-clients) are now separate from the daemon
(libvirt-daemon).
Cheers
 -- Guido

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