Re: [Qemu-devel] Is there a way to package QEMU binaries?

[Peter Xu]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:41:19PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 06/12 14:24, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For example, I wanted to compile QEMU once and install it on multiple
> > systems.  What would be the suggested way to do so?
> > 
> > Is there something similar to "make bin-rpmpkg" for Linux?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> 
> No. The big question is the libraries. Even if you create the rpm, the 
> libraries
> that you have linked against are not necessarily available on the systems you
> install. This means you either list all possible libraries as required in the
> rpm spec, which is a waste, or the list is generated dynamically, which is not
> trivial. For example, you can easily build QEMU against a custom glib, but 
> it's
> very tricky to generate an rpm from it that works on other systems.

That's true.  But my question was actually specific to when the
systems are sharing basically the same environment (kernel, library
versions, etc.).  A simple solution is that on each system I install
qemu official package then the dependencies will all be there, then I
install my custom package (which will possibly install the binaries
under /usr/local) and I run the customized binary.

> 
> For development, maybe it's easier to combine git and Ansible.

I would prefer avoid using git and compiling stuff, if there is a
way. :)

-- 
Peter Xu