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

[Guido Günther]

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