[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#594652: libvirt0: libvirtd is incompatible with Fedora's libvirtd because of netcat patch

[David Caldwell]

Package: libvirt0
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: important

The 0005-Terminate-nc-on-EOF.patch file patches libvertd to pass extra
debian specific args to netcat ("-q 0"). Since this option is Debian
specific, libvirt fails to connect to Fedora/RHEL/CentOS libvirtd servers.

I've rebuilt the package locally without this patch and now I can connect to
remote machines just fine.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Virt-manager handles either netcat flavor
by doing this in src/virtManager/consCole.py:

        nc_cmd = [\
            "nc -q 2>&1 | grep -q 'requires an argument';"
            "if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then"
            "   CMD='nc -q 0 %(nc_params)s';"
            "else"
            "   CMD='nc %(nc_params)s';"
            "fi;"
            "$CMD;" % {'nc_params': nc_params}
        ]

Though it looks more pleasant to do that type of thing in python than in
C. :-)

Or perhaps the patch could be removed and the netcat-openbsd package be
required by libvirt since I don't believe it needs the "-q" argument to work
correctly.

-David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt0 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0                0.6.4-1        An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libgcrypt11               1.4.5-2        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26               2.8.6-1        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libnl1                    1.1-5          library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libxenstore3.0            4.0.1~rc5-1    Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-4   GNOME XML library

Versions of packages libvirt0 recommends:
ii  lvm2                          2.02.66-3  The Linux Logical Volume Manager

libvirt0 suggests no packages.

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