[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#714372: Bug#714372: libvirt: Please enable firewalld support

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:44:01PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:36:13 +0200,
> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:22:26PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > Source: libvirt
> > > Version: 1.0.6-1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Could you please enabled firewalld support.
> > > 
> > > The code should provide a fallback to the regular calls to iptables
> > > if the daemon is not running (I didn't test this myself)
> > > 
> > > The firewalld package is itself depending against the iptables
> > > package, so I guess it's not really usefull to enable this
> > > on !linux.
> > 
> > Could you check if the fallback works? We had firewalld disabled and
> > it caused trouble without firewalld installed.
> 
> 
> Any reference on what was broken?

It was a long time ago but IIRC the build relied on firewalld being
available if support was compiled in. So libvirtd wouldn't start and
when working around that it failed to do proper nating etc.
 -- Guido

> 
> I'll try but for some reasons libvirt 1.0.6-1 FTBFS here with the following
> error:
> 
> configure: error: You must install the libsasl2 library & headers to compile libvirt
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Laurent Bigonville
>