From: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
To: 47285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#47285] [PATCH 0/4] Update libvirt and friends.
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:32:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im5lwlxj.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8fdwmdn.fsf@gmx.com>
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Pierre Langlois writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> This is a patch series that updates libvirt to 7.1.0, now using the
> meson build system, and then updates a few dependent packages as well.
>
> Getting libvirt to build and then work properly was quite tedious, given
> that we have to build it so that the binaries refer to /etc and /var at
> runtime, while we set the prefix to the package output. This was
> relatively straight-forward with the old build system, but with meson I
> ended up having to patch meson.build so that:
>
> - It allows for localstatedir to not be relative to the prefix. And
> prevent it from trying to create empty directories in /var during
> installation.
>
> - It allows installing configurations, in /gnu/...-libvirt-7.1.0/etc/,
> but still refer to the system /etc at runtime. An alternative would
> be to not do any of the installation steps for /etc files, but doing
> that was more intrusive a change to the build system, and having
> those configurations installed could be useful examples, or referred
> to be services.
>
> Other than that, the rest is pretty straight-forward. I've tested this
> using the libvirt service and virt-manager, making sure I could still
> boot a VM. It's all working fine for me, although my use-case is quite
> simple, just the defaults:
Just after sending this, I realized we actually had a system test for
the libvirt service, that works too :-).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-20 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-20 21:23 [bug#47285] [PATCH 0/4] Update libvirt and friends Pierre Langlois
2021-03-20 21:31 ` [bug#47285] [PATCH 1/4] gnu: libvirt: Update to 7.1.0 Pierre Langlois
2021-03-20 21:31 ` [bug#47285] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: python-libvirt: " Pierre Langlois
2021-03-20 21:31 ` [bug#47285] [PATCH 3/4] gnu: libvirt-glib: Update to 4.0.0 Pierre Langlois
2021-03-20 21:31 ` [bug#47285] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: virt-manager: Update to 3.2.0 Pierre Langlois
2021-03-20 21:32 ` Pierre Langlois [this message]
2021-03-31 13:28 ` bug#47285: [PATCH 0/4] Update libvirt and friends Ludovic Courtès
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