[virt-tools-list] virt-manager, port for FreeBSD

[Jason Helfman]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:37:55PM -0400, Cole Robinson thus spake:
>On 06/10/2011 01:48 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I was hoping I could have some information cleared up for the dependencies
>> for virt-manager, as I have ported this to FreeBSD. I've also ported
>> virtinst to FreeBSD, as well
>>     .
>> According to the dependencies listed on the web page we have the below:
>> (webpage)
>>
>> Virtual Machine Manager has the following dependencies
>>
>> python >= 2.4 - virt-manager is written in Python!
>> pygtk2 >= 1.99.12-6 - the Python GTK2 bindings are used for the UI
>> gnome-python2-gconf >= 1.99.11-7 - GConf stores application preferences
>> libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 - libVirt is for talking to Xen, QEMU, KVM and other
>> virtualization backensd
>> dbus-python >= 0.61 - optionally expose a service on the bus for control of
>> the UI
>
>Dbus isn't a hard requirement for virt-manager, however it will probably
>backtrace on startup if dbus-python isn't available. Should be fairly easy to
>patch around this dependency though, some minor functionality won't be usable
>though.
>

I left this in, as it sounds like it would be good to have.

>> gnome-python-desktop >= 2.15.4 - optionally store VNC server passwords in
>> GNOME keyring
>> libxml2-python >= 2.6.23 - used to parse XML from libvirt
>> vte >= 0.12.2 - for displaying / interacting with the serial console
>> virtinst >= 0.300.3 - python library for assisting in creating VMs
>> gtk-vnc-python >= 0.3.4 - GTK widget for displaying VNC sessions
>>
>> Is gnome-python-desktop a requirement if you don't want Gnome Keyring, or if
>> you don't want Gnome Keyring, are neither required?
>>
>
>Aren't strictly required. The code might not handle it nicely though, you'll
>have to run and see.

Nothing to test on at the moment, unfortunately, other than it working on my
desktop, so I will leave this in as well, but did remove the requirement for
the gnome-keyring. When I can do futher testing, I can consider removing.
>
>> And in the spec file, there are additional requirements listed:
>>
>> # Required for loading the glade UI
>> Requires: pygtk2-libglade
>> # Required for our graphics which are currently SVG format
>> Requires: librsvg2
>>
>> Are these in the rpm still a requirement?
>>
>
>Yes. In general, the RPM spec has most up to date requirements. libglade is a
>hard requirement. Librsvg2 requirement could be avoided by just not using the
>default icon, if it proves to be an issue. But it's prob already available for BSD

Libglade is in the port now, as it came in as a dependency of another port
during my build. I added Librsvg2, though.
>
>> I've also found that urlgrabber (python module), is also a requirement, but
>> not listed anywhere.
>>
>
>Yeah, urlgrabber is a dependency of virtinst, so virt-manager kinda piggybacks
>on that. It should be an explicit dependency though. Sorry I didn't mention
>the urlgrabber virtinst dependency in previous emails, slipped my mind.
>
I removed urlgrabber from virt-manager, and added it to virinst.
>Thanks for the work!
>
>- Cole
>

Your welcome, and thanks for the information!

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