[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#618036: libvirt0: missing dependency: dmidecode

William Dauchy wdauchy at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 16:50:19 UTC 2011


Package: libvirt0
Version: 0.8.8-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

libvirt is using dmidecode in ./src/util/sysinfo.c
It causes some segfaults in some cases if not installed.
Please see my attached patch to fix the missing dependency.

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William
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From: William Dauchy <wdauchy at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] adding dmidecode as a dependency

used by libvirt on ./src/util/sysinfo.c
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 debian/control |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d517e7f..ad3a6e5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Description: the programs for the libvirt library
 
 Package: libvirt0
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, dmidecode
 Recommends: lvm2
 Description: library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
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