On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:03:09PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Package: virt-manager > Version: 0.6.1-4 > Severity: minor > > It's taken me many hours to track this down, not sure the best way > (well, possibly remove the dependency!). > > If you use qemu+ssh to a remote system, it calls "nc -U > /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock". > > a) it should probably call "netcat" instead (I know we keep 'nc' for > backwards compatability, but I think 'netcat' has also been adopted > everywhere now (i.e. by other distros)). > > b) -U is only supported by netcat-openbsd, not netcat-traditional > (perhaps mention this in the 'details' error message?) > > c) not convinced what this actually does TBH - isn't that file 'owned' > by libvirt - i.e. couldn't it just be 'cat'ted instead hence removing > this dependency? > > Anyway, set to minor, just hopefully saving someone else some > frustrations! We do have a "Recommends: netcat-openbsd" in libvirt-bin exactly for that so the only point left is improving the error message or am I missing something? -- Guido
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