PPC, MIPS and other emulated architectures should have their separate packages

[Gioele Barabucci]

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

Could separate executables for non-x86 architectures be provided in individual packages like qemu-alpha, qemu-mips and so on?

Currently qemu-kvm-extras contains 15 different executables for 8 major architectures. The deb file is 15MB large and installs 44 MB of executables.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I think this is a reasonable suggestion.

I don't use anything other than the main kvm package.

Could you perhaps suggest a logical breakdown of how the package should be split?

Thanks!

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

I think the following list of 9 packages for 16 architectures is a good compromise between modularity and numer of packages. This list is based on the original list of files of the lucid version of the amd64 qemu-kvm package.

* qemu-kvm-arm
/usr/bin/qemu-arm
/usr/bin/qemu-armeb
/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-arm.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-armeb.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-arm.1

* qemu-kvm-ppc
/usr/bin/qemu-ppc
/usr/bin/qemu-ppc64
/usr/bin/qemu-ppc64abi32
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppcemb
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-ppc.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-ppc64.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-ppc64abi32.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-ppc.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-ppc64.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-ppcemb.1

* qemu-kvm-mips
/usr/bin/qemu-mips
/usr/bin/qemu-mipsel
/usr/bin/qemu-system-mips
/usr/bin/qemu-system-mips64
/usr/bin/qemu-system-mips64el
/usr/bin/qemu-system-mipsel
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-mips.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-mipsel.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-mips.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-mips64.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-mips64el.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-mipsel.1

* qemu-kvm-sparc
/usr/bin/qemu-sparc
/usr/bin/qemu-sparc32plus
/usr/bin/qemu-sparc64
/usr/bin/qemu-system-sparc
/usr/bin/qemu-system-sparc64
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-sparc.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-sparc32plus.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-sparc64.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-sparc.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-sparc64.1

* qemu-kvm-sh
/usr/bin/qemu-sh4
/usr/bin/qemu-sh4eb
/usr/bin/qemu-system-sh4
/usr/bin/qemu-system-sh4eb
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-sh4.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-sh4eb.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-sh4.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-sh4eb.1

* qemu-kvm-alpha
/usr/bin/qemu-alpha
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-alpha.1

* qemu-kvm-cris
/usr/bin/qemu-cris
/usr/bin/qemu-system-cris
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-cris.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-cris.1

* qemu-kvm-m68k
/usr/bin/qemu-m68k
/usr/bin/qemu-system-m68k
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-m68k.1
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system-m68k.1

* qemu-kvm-microblaze
/usr/bin/qemu-microblaze
/usr/bin/qemu-system-microblaze

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

(The Launchpad janitor made this bug expire because it was incomplete, while, instead, all the requested info has been submitted.)

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

`qemu-kvm-extras` is still a monolithic (48MB) package in Maverick 10.10 and current Natty 11.04 snapshots.

I'm changing the the status to what Mathias Gug set it before the Launchpad Janitor made it expire.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Copying this bug to qemu-linaro, which provides many of those other architectures.