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FS#14631 - [kvm] Simplify KVM PKGBUILD

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 08 May 2009, 13:02 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 21 May 2009, 17:10 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've successfully made a KVM package with the following steps:

{
cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
./configure --prefix=/usr --audio-drv-list=alsa,sdl,oss,esd --with-patched-kernel
make
make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install

# symbolic link for backwards compatibility
ln -s qemu-system-x86_64 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/qemu-kvm
# install udev rule
install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/65-kvm.rules \
${pkgdir}/lib/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules
}

so a lot of the cruft (I guess it accumulated over the years) is not needed.

The changes are:
- add "--with-patched-kernel" so that it doesn't try to compile the kernel module
- just use make and make install, they work just ok
- remove the fix for sdl compilation - not needed
- remove kqemu rules file - kvm doesn't support kqemu anyway

also, the zlib and e2fsprogs dependencies seem to not be needed acording to namcap.

Attached is the whole revised PKGBUILD file
   PKGBUILD (1 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 17:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  kvm-86
Comment by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 08 May 2009, 13:06 GMT
I'd also suggest removing the esound dependency (by using "--audio-drv-list=alsa,sdl,oss" in the configure line), but I don't know if there's a consensus in the Arch community about phasing out Esound ?
Comment by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 08 May 2009, 14:58 GMT
While at this, I guess make and make install should be guarded with a " || return 1" like most other packages have

so:
make || return 1
make install DESTDIR=${pkgdir} || return 1

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