[fedora-arm] Re: 2:qemu-system-x86-2.6.0-4.fc25.aarch64 -> edk2-ovmf dependency

>> >> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> >> > If we can't build edk2 x86_64 bios blob on aarch64, and can't import
>> >> > the previously built noarch packages, then seems to say the only
>> >> > option left is to split the edk2 package into two source packages.
>> >> > One that exclusively builds the BIOS blobs (and can be entirely
>> >> > noarch), and one that builds the host tools (which is arch dependant).
>> >> > It rather sucks that build system limitations would force us to split
>> >> > the source RPM in this way though :-(
>> >>
>> >> The alternative might be to reduce the hard Requires dependency
>> >> to either Recommends or Suggests. What do you think about that?
>> >
>> > I'm not a huge fan of that, because I think it is desirable for apps
>> > to be able to presume EFI support is available out of the box if QEMU
>> > is installed. Making it optional will just leave to user bug reports
>> > when trying to use EFI in virt-manager and it failing due to missing
>> > BIOS.
>> >
>> > Though as a short term hack, I guess I'd be ok with making it Recommends
>> > on aarch64 only, and leaving it as Requires on all other arches, with a
>> > view to making it Requires again on aarch64 once we have a better fix.
>>
>> It's also an issue when building libguestfs on ppc.koji and presumably
>> s390.koji due to qemu-system-x86
>>
>> DEBUG util.py:421: Error: nothing provides edk2-ovmf needed by
>> qemu-system-x86-2:2.6.0-4.fc25.ppc64
>>
>> http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3518487
>
> Ok, lets rephrase that. I'd be fine with having Requires on x86_64
> and Recommends on all other arches for edk2-ovmf, on the basis that
> 99% of users will be using ovmf on x86_64 hosts with KVM. The number
> of people wanting to use ovmf with QEMU on non-x86_64 is likely single
> digits.

Works for me except for aarch64 on aarch64 where it would be good to
have it a hard dep as well
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