[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#973489: libvirt-daemon-system: upgrade overwrites generated file /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:20:13AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> I agree that it should probably not be in /etc; in fact, the upstream
> spec file deals with it pretty much how Thorsten suggested above:
> 
>   %install
> 
>   install -d -m 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/libvirt/networks/
>   cp $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml \
>      $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/libvirt/networks/default.xml
>   chmod 0600 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
> 
>   %post daemon-config-network
> 
>   if test $1 -eq 1 && test ! -f %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml; then
>     UUID=`/usr/bin/uuidgen`
>     sed -e "s/${orig_sub}/${sub}/g" \
>         -e "s,</name>,</name>\n  <uuid>$UUID</uuid>," \
>          < %{_datadir}/libvirt/networks/default.xml \
>          > %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
>     ln -s ../default.xml %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart/default.xml
>     chmod 0600 %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
>   fi
> 
> We should do something similar in Debian as well, possibly including
> shipping the default network configuration in a separate binary
> package. I'll look into it over the next few days :)

I've taken a stab at addressing this:

  https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/merge_requests/78

Thorsten, I would appreciate if you could take a look, especially
since you seem to have some familiarity with this sort of situation
already.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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