Hi there! On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:37:47 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:54:02PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > [..snip..] >> So, I see two solutions, beside the fact that libvirt-bin should depend >> on netcat-openbsd: > > virt-manager invokes netcat on the remote side for console access.
Mmm, while I see your point, the only way to assure netcat-openbsd is installed on the remote side is a dependency in libvirt-bin, given that virt-manager is not required on the remote side. >> 1) libvirt-bin calls /bin/nc.openbsd, not elegant, but it avoids any >> problem in an automatic way > > This would break non Debian systems. We could check for nc.openbsd first > and then fall back to nc though (which would mean fixing up > Autodetect-if-the-remote-nc-command-supports-the-q-o.patch) but in that > case it's probably easier to drop the dependency altogether (which is > what upstream plans to do). I am not sure I have completely understood what you wrote: 1) Autodetect-if-the-remote-nc-command-supports-the-q-o.patch was introduced because of #573172. In Debian Both netcat-traditional and netcat-openbsd have the -q option, but none of the upstream netcat has it [1][2]. 2) modifying the patch above is IMHO not a good thing, given that these two issues (-q and -U) are completely different, with the latter (-U) being common to all versions other than the OpenBSD netcat (#348564). 3) what does "but in that case it's probably easier to drop the dependency altogether (which is what upstream plans to do)" mean? That -U will not be needed anymore? In this case, I think that, beside fixing the dependencies and documenting this bug, nothing more should be done. [1] the original Hobbit's netcat <http://nc110.sourceforge.net/> OpenBSD netcat <http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/> GNU netcat <http://netcat.sourceforge.net/> Nmap ncat <http://nmap.org/ncat/> [2] netcat-traditional got it in 1999 (1.10-12, #45675) and netcat-openbsd with its first upload in 2008 (1.89-1, #461317) >> 2) libvirt-bin still calls /bin/nc, but the need for netcat-openbsd >> should be documented at least in the README.Debian, something like > > Applied, thanks. I'll leave the bug open though since improving the > error message is still a good idea. Thank you. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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