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[PATCH 0/4] Update libvirt and friends.
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Hi Pierre,
Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois <at> gmx.com> skribis:
> 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:
>
> (services (cons*
> (service libvirt-service-type
> (libvirt-configuration
> (unix-sock-group "libvirt")))
> ...))
>
> Let me know what you think and if that's good enough to apply! The
> definition is a bit more hacky than I'd like, so any ideas to improve it
> would be great.
AFAICS it all works like a charm, including the system test :-), so I
went ahead and applied the whole series.
Thank you!
Ludo’.
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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:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(services (cons*
(service libvirt-service-type
(libvirt-configuration
(unix-sock-group "libvirt")))
...))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Let me know what you think and if that's good enough to apply! The
definition is a bit more hacky than I'd like, so any ideas to improve it
would be great.
Thanks,
Pierre
Pierre Langlois (4):
gnu: libvirt: Update to 7.1.0.
gnu: python-libvirt: Update to 7.1.0.
gnu: libvirt-glib: Update to 4.0.0.
gnu: virt-manager: Update to 3.2.0.
gnu/local.mk | 2 +-
.../libvirt-create-machine-cgroup.patch | 48 --------
.../libvirt-do-not-create-var-dirs.patch | 30 +++++
gnu/packages/virtualization.scm | 106 ++++++++----------
4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libvirt-create-machine-cgroup.patch
create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libvirt-do-not-create-var-dirs.patch
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