From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 28718@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28718] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add sysconfdir to configure-flags.
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:24:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv50o96t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vajpekaj.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 08 Oct 2017 17:22:44 +0200")
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Hello Ludovic,
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>>>> I've used this patch to run a QEMU VM with bridge interface.
>>>>
>>>> $ mkdir -p /tmp/etc/qemu
>>>> $ echo 'allow bridge0' | tee -a /tmp/etc/qemu/bridge.conf
>>>> # ip link add bridge0 type bridge
>>>> # ip link set dev enp6s0 master bridge0
>>>> # ip link up bridge0
>>>> # dhclient bridge0
>>>> # qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net bridge,br=bridge0 # …
>>>
>>> It feels wrong to me to default to /tmp/etc instead of /etc.
>>>
>>> Setting up a bridge requires root privileges anyway, so why not stick to
>>> /etc instead of /tmp/etc?
>>
>> It's inspired by libvirt package recipe :-)
>
> Looking at commit a4b9392151 for libvirt, I think it’s a trick here: we
> do pass --sysconfdir=/etc, and sysconfdir=/tmp/etc is passed only during
> the install phase, which I think is a trick to avoid errors while
> creating $(sysconfdir). But /etc is the actual sysconfdir AIUI.
>
> So, WDYT? :-)
Thank you for investigation. I saw no reason not to use file-system
convention at the beginning of discussion. Here is an another patch.
Build finished successfully for me.
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From fcff3b4b2c53af7974786f7f4dd1633c9b634130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 06:24:58 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add sysconfdir to configure-flags.
* gnu/packages/virtualization.scm (qemu): Add sysconfdir to configure-flags.
---
gnu/packages/virtualization.scm | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
index a8e54d684..4e384e79a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
"--disable-debug-info" ; save build space
"--enable-virtfs" ; just to be sure
,(string-append "--prefix=" out)
+ ,(string-append "--sysconfdir=/etc")
,@configure-flags))))))
(add-after 'install 'install-info
(lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
--
2.14.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-09 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-06 3:30 [bug#28718] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add sysconfdir to configure-flags Oleg Pykhalov
2017-10-06 4:38 ` [bug#28718] Status: " Oleg Pykhalov
2017-10-07 17:58 ` [bug#28718] " Leo Famulari
2017-10-07 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-08 7:15 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2017-10-08 15:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09 11:24 ` Oleg Pykhalov [this message]
2017-10-09 19:37 ` bug#28718: " Ludovic Courtès
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