[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#540749: Bug#540749: virt-manager: how do we enhance interoperability

[Guido Günther]

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