[PATCH 1/6] docs: compiling: Add a paragraph suggesting installation from repository

Users should be encouraged to install libvirt from the distro's repos in the first place. Also encourage distro-specific ways to get newer versions, rather than building from source manually. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/compiling.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/compiling.rst b/docs/compiling.rst index 7746f20bed..25dd0f4265 100644 --- a/docs/compiling.rst +++ b/docs/compiling.rst @@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ libvirt Installation .. contents:: +Installing from distribution repositories +----------------------------------------- + +This is the recommended option to install libvirt. Libvirt is present in the +package repositories of all major distributions. Installing a package from the +package manager ensures that it's properly compiled, installed, and updated +during the lifecycle of the distribution. + +For users who wish to use the most recent version, certain distributions also +allow installing the most recent versions of virtualization packages: + + **Fedora** + + Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository + + **Gentoo** + + The ``app-emulation/libvirt`` is regularly updated, but newest versions are + usually marked as testing by the ``~*`` keyword. + Compiling a release tarball --------------------------- -- 2.37.1