On Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013, 12:06:00 wrote Andreas Färber: > Hi everyone, > > Ever since I've been involved with openSUSE, the qemu package has had an > unusual setup of configuring and building twice: once for the regular > binaries, then moving them to a temporary directory and finally > configuring and building statically for the qemu-linux-user subpackage, > used for arm chroot builds among others. > > In our quest to finally unify the kvm and qemu packages, I have updated > the qemu package to 1.5.0 (SR#176307 pending for Factory) and have > subsequently prepared to split the qemu.spec[.in] to build > qemu-linux-user in a separate linked package similar to gcc or kernel: > https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/176308 > > AFAICS the RPM package name stays the same that way, so armv7/armv5el > should hopefully be unaffected and the change transparent to end users. > > A nice side-effect is that we can limit the SLE_11_SP2 build breakage to > qemu-linux-user package (BNC#820754: SLE_11_SP2 is missing a glibc > maintenance update for static builds). Also the dependencies for > qemu-linux-user get significantly less and no *-static deps for qemu. > > If I don't hear any objections, I'll accept the changed qemu package > into Virtualization project later today and will setup qemu-linux-user > package there.
sounds good to me :) -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: [email protected] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
