[meta-virtualization] libvirt requires libssh2

Slater, Joseph joe.slater at windriver.com
Wed May 7 12:05:30 PDT 2014



> -----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.

libvirt configure does check for and will silently use libssh2, so it might be good
to tell it not to.

Joe


> 
> 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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> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> thee at its end"
> 
> 
> 
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