Re: iotests and python dependencies

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 05:50:00PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 5/5/22 16:13, John Snow wrote:
> > 
> >     I would rather keep python/qemu/qmp as a submodule for a longer time,
> >     and still go through a virtual environment that installs it together
> >     with its pip dependencies.
> > 
> > 
> > A small headache relating fixes to both locations, but if you'd like to
> > see it to prove that the installation mechanism works in general, then
> > OK. I'm willing to deal with the pain until the next release to let us
> > go through a testing cycle. Reluctantly. Maybe.
> > 
> > I'm assuming you mean as a subpackage and not a [git] submodule. If you
> > do mean git, then ... uh. That might be messy.
> 
> Yeah, I meant a git submodule in qemu.git...  It would also be the easiest
> way to build a subpackage in Fedora, since it would be part of the QEMU
> tarballs.

When qemu.qmp is uploaded to PyPi, then Fedora packaging guidelines on
unbundling will expect us to create a dedicated python-qemu.qmp src.rpm,
and use that, not anything QEMU might bundle.

With regards,
Daniel
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