Re: AW: Creation of an add-on whose sources are already available in the build system

Re: AW: Creation of an add-on whose sources are already available in the build system

[Adolf Belka]

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Hi Marcel,

On 28/11/2021 18:01, smooky(a)v16.de wrote:
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> Hi Adolf.
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> Sorry, but I overlooked qemu-ga in the qemu addon.
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> But since I only need the qemu-ga when I run ipfire virtualized without the complete qemu, it would make a lot of sense to provide this as a separate add-on.
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If this is also the case for all users, that the qemu-ga is always needed separately from qemu, then it would make sense to have a separate addon for qemu-ga.
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> It would not make sense to run a virtualization again on a virtualized system.
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> How about that?
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> So to create two addons from one source.
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> Maybe it would make sense then not to deliver the qemu-ga in the qemu addon because the qemu-ga is only interesting for the virtualized clients but not for the host.
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So then my suggestion would be to comment out in the qemu addon rootfile the qemu-ga entry.

Then I would suggest to create an additional lfs called qemu-ga, based on the qemu lfs. Probably remove some the last lines that are creating a wrapper for kvm handling and the udev script. Then create a qemu-ga rootfile, based on the qemu rootfile but with everything commented out except the qemu-ga line and any of the /usr/share/entries that might be required for qemu-ga. That way you have two addons that deal separately with qemu and with qemu-ga.

The above would be how I would try and approach it. You would basically need to give it a go and see if it works or not.

Regards,

Adolf.

> Regards
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> Marcel
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