[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#599279: libvirt-bin: virsh is unable to connect to non debian hosts

[Benedikt Spranger]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.8.3-2
Severity: important

virtsh uses non standard nc parameter -q. It makes virsh unusable with non
debian hosts.

virsh -c qemu+ssh://root@fedora/system list
root at fedora's password: 
error: server closed connection: nc: invalid option -- 'q'
usage: nc [-46DdhklnrStUuvzC] [-i interval] [-p source_port]
          [-s source_ip_address] [-T ToS] [-w timeout] [-X proxy_version]
          [-x proxy_address[:port]] [hostname] [port[s]]

error: failed to connect to the hypervisor


solution: drop useless nc '-q' parameter in libvirt. '-q' was a solution to
overpaper a bug in nc. This bug is solved in nc nearly adecade ago. 

Cheers
    Bene

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112+nmu1     add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.27-2       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.27-2       Avahi common library
ii  libblkid1                 2.17.2-3.3     block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0                0.6.4-1        An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.48-3    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
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  libparted0debian1         2.3-2          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0             0.12.0-1       Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-6 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0                  161-1          libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-3.3     Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0                  0.8.3-2        library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0            4.0.1-1        Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-4   GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate                 3.7.8-6        Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils              1.4-5          Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  dnsmasq-base              2.55-2         A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  iptables                  1.4.9-1        administration tools for packet fi
ii  libxml2-utils             2.7.7.dfsg-4   XML utilities
ii  netcat-openbsd            1.89-4         TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  qemu                      0.12.5+dfsg-2  fast processor emulator
ii  qemu-kvm                  0.12.5+dfsg-3  Full virtualization on x86 hardwar

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-3     framework for managing administrat

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