On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:30:08AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi Guido > > On Tuesday 11 Aug 2009 13:55:47 Guido Günther wrote: > > > how do we fix it. Is there any LSB compliance by the distributions ? > > > > Netcat seems to become more and more of a problem in > > libvirt/virt-manager. Different distros do use quiet different versions. > > Not having "-q" makes connections hang (not terminate) on Debian so it > > seems we have to jump through loops to figure out the right netcat. > > Cheers, > > But does it ever find the right netcat ? Since the distros use different > versions of netcat, this would keep cycling. That's what been happening in my > case. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516483 > > Red Hat closed the bug stating that the problem could be in Debian's libvirt > package. > > Given the problem's cause, should we just close it ? > I'm not sure how you'd want to tackle this. The right way would be to detect the remote netcat's capabilities. We do this for kvm/qemu, why not for netcat. Having the user figure this out is not that friendly. Cheers, -- Guido
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