FS#15374 - A new virtual dependency should be created for kvm and qemu

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Heiko Baums (cyberpatrol) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 03:22 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 31 July 2009, 19:29 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
A new virtual dependency, which is satisfied by kvm as well as qemu, should be created.

kvm includes a modified qemu version and both packages, kvm and qemu, conflict with each other. But there are several GUIs in community and unsupported, which depend on either qemu or kvm. The packages I found are aqemu, qtemu and probably qemulator.

All of these packages depend on qemu. So it's currently not possible to install them with kvm.

So a virtual dependency like java-runtime, which is satisfied by jre and openjdk6, is needed, and the PKGBUILDs for qemu and kvm should get an appropriate provides array.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 31 July 2009, 19:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  kvm-88 provides qemu
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 03:30 GMT
Another possibiliy; should kvm just provide qemu?
Comment by Heiko Baums (cyberpatrol) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 03:40 GMT
If this is possible, then this may be a better and easier solution.

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