Bug#529282: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Collins
Guido Günther writes: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:48:00AM +1200, Paul Collins wrote: >> > It checks for it to get the binary paths. >> I'm sorry, but that's really silly. Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm, >> for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm? > It checks for several (iscsi

Bug#529282: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

2009-05-19 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:48:00AM +1200, Paul Collins wrote: > > It checks for it to get the binary paths. > > I'm sorry, but that's really silly. Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm, > for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm? It checks for several (iscsiadm, parted, ...) but not al

Bug#529282: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Collins
> It checks for it to get the binary paths. I'm sorry, but that's really silly. Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm, for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm? > A package not being installable is a bad excuse to remove the build-dep. It's not so much an excuse to remove the build-de

Bug#529280: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Collins
> It checks for it to get the binary paths. I'm sorry, but that's really silly. Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm, for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm? > A package not being installable is a bad excuse to remove the build-dep. It's not so much an excuse to remove the build-de

Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Collins
Package: libvirt Version: 0.6.3-2 This package checks for iscsiadm at build-time, but makes no attempt to ensure it is available at runtime. This seems backwards to me, and with open-iscsi being currently uninstallable on vanilla systems (#529280) right now it is challenging to rebuild libvirt on