libvirt on 15.04

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:12:18 -0400
Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> >
> > While installing packages on 15.04, a package called
> > libvirt-system-daemon was suggested (or recommended, I can't
> > remember), but I can't find it in the repository. It seems to exist
> > in Debian when I search for it - is this something that matters?
> 
> Looking at the libvirt 'control' file.
> 
> In Ubuntu:
> 
> libvirt-bin
> This package contains the supporting binaries to use with libvirt.
> 
> In Debian:
> 
> libvirt-bin
> This is a transitional package. You can safely remove it.
> 
> libvirt-clients
> This package contains the libvirt shell virsh and other client
> binaries.
> 
> libvirt-daemon
> This package contains the libvirt-daemon.
> 
> libvirt-daemon-system
> This package contains the configuration files to run the libvirt
> daemon as a system service.
> 
> Debian's split libvirt-bin into three packages since v1.2.9.
> 
> Ubuntu might not want to do so since 15.04 has v1.2.12 and doesn't
> have this split but it has a packaging mistake because of the
> following:
> 
> # aptitude search -F%p '?recommends(libvirt-daemon)'
> virt-manager
> 
> # aptitude search -F%p '?recommends(libvirt-daemon-system)'
> virt-manager
> 

Thank you, that was really helpful. I'm sorry I wasn't specific about
what package it came from, but I wasn't sure, as I was installing a
bunch of stuff on a fresh install. Should I file a bug report on this,
as sktsee suggests?

Petter

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