Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.5.1-6 Severity: wishlist Hi,
It seems to me that we can avoid configuring dnsmasq if we recommend dnsmasq-base instead of dnsmasq. See /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/README.Debian. We also need change the README.Debian: --- /usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/README.Debian 2009-02-17 03:59:10.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/README.Debian.test 2009-02-21 14:37:30.000000000 +0100 @@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ virsh net-autostart default In order for things to work this way you need to have the recommended packages -dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed. However Debian's default dnsmasq -needs to be adjusted slightly to interoperate with libvirtd: +dnsmasq-base, bridge-utils and iptables installed. + +You don't need the package dnsmasq. However, if you install it, Debian's +default dnsmasq needs to be adjusted slightly to interoperate with libvirtd: cat <<EOF >/etc/dnsmasq.d/00_libvirtd.conf # only bind to loopback by default Best regards, Bin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.toi.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libavahi-client3 0.6.24-2 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.24-2 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.9-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.1-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.6.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit vi ii libpolkit2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libreadline5 5.2-3.1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii libtasn1-3 1.8-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libvirt0 0.5.1-6 library for interfacing with diffe ii libxenstore3.0 3.2.1-2 Xenstore communications library fo ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library ii logrotate 3.7.7-3 Log rotation utility ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends: ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu pn dnsmasq <none> (no description available) ii iptables 1.4.2-6 administration tools for packet fi pn netcat-openbsd <none> (no description available) pn qemu <none> (no description available) Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests: pn policykit <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
