[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#516482: libvirt0: qemu+ssh requires netcat-openbsd

[Adrian Bridgett]

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!

Many thanks :-)

Adrian
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