[meta-virtualization] libvirt requires libssh2

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Slater, Joseph <joe.slater at windriver.com> wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:21 AM
>> To: Josep Puigdemont
>> Cc: meta-virtualization at yoctoproject.org; Slater, Joseph
>> Subject: Re: [meta-virtualization] libvirt requires libssh2
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Josep Puigdemont
>> <josep.puigdemont at enea.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Josep Puigdemont
>> >> <josep.puigdemont at enea.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > A default dependency on libssh2 for libvirt was added recently. Where is libssh2
>> >> > provided? I can not find it in either meta-oe or oe-core.
>> >>
>> >> Joe ? Did that leak in from something local to you ?
>> >>
>> >> Regardless, I'll revert the change for now.
>> >
>> > Maybe we can keep PACKAGECONFIG[libssh2]
>>
>> If that doesn't map to anything obvious in the yocto ecosystem, then I wouldn't
>> want it to be available at all. Otherwise we'll pollute the options
>> with internal/private
>> fields in a public recipe .. which isn't what we want.
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> libvirt configure does check for and will silently use libssh2, so it might be good
> to tell it not to.

That doesn't answer the question. If it checks and silently uses it, but yet it
isn't in an obvious Yocto layer .. it'll never find it, so we don't
need a package
config.

If it is detecting it from the host, that's host contamination and a bug that we
don't fix via packageconfig.

Bruce

>
> Joe
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>
>>
>> I obviously should have done a build test on this one, but instead
>> assumed it was safe
>> ... lesson learned.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> >
>> > /Josep
>> >>
>> >> Bruce
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Josep
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