Hi there! On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:17:16 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:37:47 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: >> 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].
Actually, I found another bug which is even more interesting: #564034.
There, the netcat-openbsd maintainer (cc:ed) announced that he had
restored the original behavior if -q is not given:
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netcat-openbsd (1.89-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Quit immediately after EOF if -q is not given (i.e. make the default
equivalent to -q 0). This is the standard upstream behavior and what
other Linux distributions use. It is different from netcat-traditional,
but compatibility with other versions of OpenBSD netcat is more
important. (Closes: #502188)
-- Decklin Foster <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:05:08 -0400
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So, am I right that we do not need anymore the -q patch if libvirt-bin
and virt-manager depends on netcat-openbsd >= 1.89-4?
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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