Bug 607731

Summary: openssh-askpass should be a dependency
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.0CC: xen-maint
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Description Alex Williamson 2010-06-24 16:35:01 UTC
Description of problem:
yum groupinstall Virtualization*

try to connect to a remote system.  Unless you have it installed for something
else, virt-manager will fail with an error about /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass not existing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.8.4-5.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Actual results:
fail

Expected results:
I have to go manually install extra packages to make the tool work like its supposed to.

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Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-24 16:52:58 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2010-06-25 17:15:09 UTC
It's not a dependency because it's not a hard requirement. A user may very legitimately want virt-manager for local management, but not want SSH installed on their machine. Adding the hard Requires: openssh-askpass would prevent this use case. Crappy, I know, but anything else would be abusing RPM requires.

The 'basic-desktop' comps group pulls in openssh-askpass, so if you are using your machine as a client, I'd recommend installing that group.