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2carders

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Registered: 2014-04-10

Posts: 12

why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

Hi, all.

Today I upgraded qemu to 2.3.0-3 and
noticed that ceph and its dependants were (newly) installed as well .
I don't need ceph/rbd in my usage of qemu, and don't want them installed if possible.
I wonder why ceph is listed in the 'depends' list instead of 'optdepends' list.
thanks in advance.

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,533

Re: why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

Looks like maybe it helps your filesystem recover when you crash on the qemu client.

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everytrash

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Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 16

Re: why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

I have the same problem and i think this is absolut nonsense! Please remove the ceph dependency!

Thanks

gray85

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Registered: 2010-11-27

Posts: 14

Re: why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

I've googled and found this https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 27185.html

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45208

2carders

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Registered: 2014-04-10

Posts: 12

Re: why does qemu 2.3.0-3 depend on ceph?

Thank you for the comments.
I didn't noticed FS#45208, because I just checked the "Bug Reports" page from
the qemu's package page, where FS#45208 is not listed.

I also found that /usr/bin/qemu-system-* are linked with librbd already (not dlopen'ed?),
and I'm afraid that moving ceph to "optdepends" list might be impractical
because "--enable-modules" is a configure option and many users would need it to be enabled.
I hope that librbd is packaged separately from ceph, to reduce the size of dependencies.