[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#599006: Bug#599006: Probably due to a missing dependency

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:45:20AM +0100, Brice Arnould wrote:
> I was having the same problem, apparently it was caused by the fact
> that gawk was not installed.
> 
> This triggered that if statement :
> "    if ((iptables_cmd_path != NULL || ip6tables_cmd_path != NULL) &&
> "        (!grep_cmd_path || !bash_cmd_path || !gawk_cmd_path)) {
> "        virNWFilterReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
> "                               _("essential tools to support ip(6)tables "
> "                                 "firewalls could not be located"));
> in nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.c .
> 
> IMHO a dependency to gawk should be added to the libvirt0 package.
There's a recommends on gawk in libvirt-bin already.
Cheers,
 -- Guido