[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#573172: Bug#573172: libvirt0: netcat -q option prevents remote connections

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:44:58PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> The server runs Fedora, with an openbsd nc installed. It knows the option -U
> so I don't have the problem reported in #538799. Unfortunately, nc.openbsd
> doesn't know -q. On the other hand, nc.traditional knows -q, but not -U.
> The usage of both options in one nc commandline completly breaks things.
The issue is, that there are several netcat.openbsd variants around.
Those in fedora don't know about -q, those on Debian need it. Upstream
is working on resolving this.

As a workaround you can filter out -q with a simple shell wrapper on the
Fedora end.
Cheers,
 -- Guido