Re: iotests and python dependencies

[Paolo Bonzini]

If we want to provide an installable rpm in Fedora then yes; but we can leave 
distribution to pypi and use a bundled copy in the virtual environment that is 
used to run tests.

Paolo

Il 5 maggio 2022 17:57:24 CEST, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> ha 
scritto:
>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