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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:
[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
qemu-bridge-helper of rhel7 is not consistent with manpage. Better to update redhat/qemu-kvm.spec to make it same as upstream.
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.
Posted another fix to upstream: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-10/msg02908.html
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7
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.
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