2016-03-06 22:20 GMT+01:00 stan <[email protected]>: > This package does not seem to exist. > > Weird, dnf is the one that gave me this package number
> I thought you said that the patches were developed by Fedora devs. > Aren't they then included in the Fedora packages? I ask because it is > common for the Fedora kernel to have patches included that have not > gone upstream yet. In some cases, they will never go upstream. I am > assuming that would be the case here as well. > There are not fedora devs, there are redhat devs working on qemu. Those patches will definitly go upstream but when? That is a good question. > > What I know is what I wrote in the paragraph above. It's speculation. > And it might not even be called a master package. It's a package that > installs other packages, but isn't installed itself. A meta package. > > It doesn't sound like qemu is one of those. What happens if you try to > install the qemu package from virt-preview? You can always say no at > the prompt. > No package available. You want something really weird ? If i don't use the package name and just type dnf install qemu i can install this specific package coming from this specific repo. You can do a > dnf remove libvirt-client > to see the dependencies for libvirt. Here, there are none. > > It would be really hard to get your system to an unusable state by > touching only libvirt and qemu packages. You can always just put it > back the way it was, because the system will still be functioning. > Well, installing qemu actually install a lot more dependencies and upgrade those already there. Problem will be to get the source now as it seems yumdownloader --source qemu failed to get source for 2.5.0-8 Is it possible to decompile the package somehow?
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