Bug#612735: imvirt misses pciutils dependency
Hi again, On 02/10/2011 12:45 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: Re, On 02/10/2011 12:21 PM, Stefan Bühler wrote: On 02/10/2011 12:16 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: Hi, IMHO imvirt should not depend on pciutils (I would prefer a Suggests or Recommends) as this might be useless for some virtualization containers. I am not sure what the goal of the project is; but if you already know which container you are on (and therefore don't install some packages needed for some detections), the detection is not that useful. imvirt is to be used on (large scale) setups with (Debian) hosts running on virtual and physical machines. With apt-dater + imvirt you are able to filter the hosts by virtualization containers and do special actions on them. Other software might use it to behave different depending on the container. Well, so i think the point of imvirt is, that it produces the expected results (detecting the correct container) in every container in every valid setup - oh sry, for xen detection you need to install 1 (or 10) other packages breaks this idea, and makes the package useless imho (as i already mentioned: if i have to know the container in order to install the correct dependencies, i don't need detection). There are also some metaphysic aspects as in Stanislaw Lem's short story Professor Corcorana’s Boxes, The Matrix and others - it tells you if you should get a red pill ;-) hehe :D - stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#612735: imvirt misses pciutils dependency
Package: imvirt Version: 0.9.0-2 Without pciutils i got the following error on a xen guest: # imvirt Can't exec lspci: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm line 68. Error loading ImVirt::VMD::KVM: Cannot exec lspci: No such file or directory Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/VMD/KVM.pm line 35. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/VMD/KVM.pm line 35. Compilation failed in require at (eval 16) line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 16) line 1. Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/imvirt line 31. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/imvirt line 31. Xen PV 3.2 So either it shouldn't handle missing lspci or depend on pciutils. - stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#612735: imvirt misses pciutils dependency
Hi,
On 02/10/2011 11:29 AM, Stefan Bühler wrote:
Package: imvirt
Version: 0.9.0-2
Without pciutils i got the following error on a xen guest:
# imvirt
Can't exec lspci: No such file or directory at
/usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm line 68.
Error loading ImVirt::VMD::KVM: Cannot exec lspci: No such file or
directory
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/VMD/KVM.pm line
35.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ImVirt/VMD/KVM.pm
line 35.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 16) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 16) line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/imvirt line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/imvirt line 31.
Xen PV 3.2
So either it shouldn't handle missing lspci or depend on pciutils.
IMHO imvirt should not depend on pciutils (I would prefer a Suggests or
Recommends) as this might be useless for some virtualization containers.
The upstream fix is:
Index: perl/lib/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm
===
--- perl/lib/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm(revision 521)
+++ perl/lib/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm(working copy)
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
exec('lspci', '-m');
-die(Cannot exec lspci: $!\n);
+exit;
}
sub pcidevs_get() {
HTH,
Thomas
- stefan
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Bug#612735: imvirt misses pciutils dependency
On 02/10/2011 12:16 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: Hi, IMHO imvirt should not depend on pciutils (I would prefer a Suggests or Recommends) as this might be useless for some virtualization containers. I am not sure what the goal of the project is; but if you already know which container you are on (and therefore don't install some packages needed for some detections), the detection is not that useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#612735: imvirt misses pciutils dependency
Re, On 02/10/2011 12:21 PM, Stefan Bühler wrote: On 02/10/2011 12:16 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: Hi, IMHO imvirt should not depend on pciutils (I would prefer a Suggests or Recommends) as this might be useless for some virtualization containers. I am not sure what the goal of the project is; but if you already know which container you are on (and therefore don't install some packages needed for some detections), the detection is not that useful. imvirt is to be used on (large scale) setups with (Debian) hosts running on virtual and physical machines. With apt-dater + imvirt you are able to filter the hosts by virtualization containers and do special actions on them. Other software might use it to behave different depending on the container. There are also some metaphysic aspects as in Stanislaw Lem's short story Professor Corcorana’s Boxes, The Matrix and others - it tells you if you should get a red pill ;-) Regards, Thomas -- supp...@ibh.de Tel. +49 351 477 77 30 www.ibh.de Fax +49 351 477 77 39 --- Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Liske Netzwerk- und System-Design IBH IT-Service GmbH Amtsgericht Dresden Gostritzer Str. 67a HRB 13626 D-01217 Dresden GF: Prof. Dr. Thomas Horn Germany VAT DE182302907 --- Ihr Partner für: LAN, WAN IP-Quality, Security, VoIP, SAN, Backup, USV --- professioneller IT-Service - kompetent und zuverlässig --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
