Debian packages without Depends (in debian/control)

[Fantu]

Hi, I build wok and kimchi from git on ubuntu 18.04 and did make deb. The generated packages don't have deps (field Depends missed in debian/control).

[alinefm]

Hey @Fantu

How did you generate the deb? You need to:

sudo ./build-all.sh && make deb

[Fantu]

then I think the "Build and Install" part of readme should be updated

[alinefm]

sudo ./build-all.sh is a utility script in wok that builds wok and all plugins. The README in Kimchi does exactly what build-all.sh does but only for Kimchi.

[Fantu]

I tried but didn't solved the issue, debian/control of wok package generated contains: Package: wok Version: 2.5.0 Section: base Priority: optional Architecture: all Maintainer: Aline Manera <aline.manera@gmail.com> Description: Wok - Webserver Originated from Kimchi

I did a fast search, I saw also control.in that contain @UBUNTU_DEPS@ but with grep in wok there isn't when replace it. I also tried 2.5.0 on stretch but is not installable "out of the box" even if should have all prerequisite, debian/control should be changed replacing "libvirt-bin," with "libvirt-bin | libvirt-daemon-system," (| is used for alternatives) can you give me a small hint on where is defined and replaced please?

it would be better to make a complete debian packaging and propose it for uploading to debian (and consequently it will also be taken from all the derivatives) but I don't have enough time now, maybe I'll do it if we use Kimchi in production (at work)

about basic things we needed (for migrate from actual kvm management console) and seems missed from fast 2.5 test I found:

• missed autostart (seems present in latest version from git)
• add iso hotplug (with vm on seems not possible with kimchi)
• add iso from pool (if is possible can you tell me how please? select show me only disk even if vm is off and there is a pool active containing iso)
• possibility to select vnc or spice of both are present (there is only console button with automatic choice or I'm wrong?)
• full italian translation (I'll can do even if probably not very good)
• add of the workaround to make clean shutdown works near always also with windows vm (is better to see in latest 3-4 years was added a better thing to used, a workaround we use in actual console is to do dom.QemuMonitorCommand(libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_QEMU_MONITOR_COMMAND_HMP,"mouse_move 100 100") before shutdown api)

Edit: another things needed:

• Add CTLR-ALT-DEL button to spice-html5 - here a patch you want do git cherry-pick: https://github.com/Fantu/kimchi/commit/786971174a03e71380235143c474887a2c3fc0b8
• autostart view/settings in vm list and/or vm menu would be good
• full debian packaging because with actual minimal with only debian/control there are issue like /etc files not maintained on packages upgrade (I'll works on it if I'll have time)

thanks for any reply

[Fantu]

I did another fast search, I found in configure.ac "UBUNTU_DEPS=./build-aux/ubuntu-pkg-deps", build-aux/ubuntu-pkg-deps have content and seems right but I not understand where is the issue. I also found generateDepsFiles.py that use dependencies.yaml but I didn't know if is possible change "libvirt-bin" with "libvirt-bin | libvirt-daemon-system" or the correct way for same result (near nothing experience with yaml, low with python)

[alinefm]

Hey @Fantu

I tried to reproduce what you described and I was only able to do so when I ran build-all.sh without sudo which failed with a permission error as you can see below:

guest@guest:~/wok/contrib/DEBIAN$ make control cd ../.. && /bin/bash ./config.status contrib/DEBIAN/control ./config.status: line 513: config.log: Permission denied Makefile:315: recipe for target 'control' failed make: *** [control] Error 1

After running it again with sudo it worked fine and control has all the dependencies needed.

[Fantu]

Hi, thanks for reply, build of software and its packages should be possible also without root privilege.

[alinefm]

AFAIU, it needs sudo because of automake to do file substitution.