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Bug 1016952

Summary: qemu-kvm man page guide wrong path for qemu-bridge-helper
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Xu Han <xuhan>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Amos Kong <akong>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, ailan, hhuang, juzhang, michen, rhod, virt-maint, xfu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Reopened
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 09:18:52 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Xu Han 2013-10-09 03:00:57 UTC
Description of problem:
qemu-kvm man page guide wrong path for qemu-bridge-helper.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-7.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.open man page and find string 'qemu-bridge-helper'
2.
3.

Actual results:
If running QEMU as an unprivileged user, use the network helper
helper to configure the TAP interface. The default network helper
executable is /usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper.

Expected results:
The default path is /usr/libexec.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Amos Kong 2013-10-14 06:00:05 UTC
[root@amosk qemu]# ls /usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24198 Oct 14 13:58 /usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper


qemu-bridge-helper will be truly installed to '/usr/local/libexec/', it's expected, so not a bug of manpage

Comment 4 Amos Kong 2013-10-14 16:05:52 UTC
qemu-bridge-helper of rhel7 is not consistent with manpage.
Better to update redhat/qemu-kvm.spec to make it same as upstream.

Comment 6 Amos Kong 2013-10-22 12:47:55 UTC
The DEF() C macro in this file uses DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER.  In texi mode
the C preprocessor is not used so DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER is not
available.

upstream needs to be fixed.

Comment 7 Amos Kong 2013-10-28 16:32:21 UTC
Posted another fix to upstream:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-10/msg02908.html

Comment 10 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-11-28 07:35:46 UTC
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7

Comment 12 Xu Han 2013-12-09 09:02:39 UTC
Verify this bug with component:
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-21.el7.x86_64

Steps:
1. check patch.
# rpm -q qemu-kvm --changelog | grep '1016952'

2. check string 'qemu-bridge-helper' in man page.
# man qemu-kvm | grep 'qemu-bridge-helper'

Results:
after step1,
# rpm -q qemu-kvm --changelog | grep 1016952
- kvm-doc-fix-hardcoded-helper-path.patch [bz#1016952]
- Resolves: bz#1016952

after step2,
# man qemu-kvm | grep 'qemu-bridge-helper'
           executable is /path/to/qemu-bridge-helper.
                   -net nic -net tap,"helper=/path/to/qemu-bridge-helper"
           /path/to/qemu-bridge-helper and the default bridge device is br0.

Base on these test results above, this bug has been fixed.

Comment 14 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:18:52 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further questions about the request.