Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.8.7

On 01/06/2011 02:03 PM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > On 01/05/2011 04:43 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > >> On 01/05/2011 06:12 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >> >> Zdenek - I'd be very happy to have a Slackware port of netcf, and would >> be willing to help out getting it in (as long as you'd be willing to >> help me setup a Slackware guest so I could test your patches ;-) There >> have been 4 other people who started netcf ports (debian, arch linux, >> suse, and (believe it or not, MS Windows)), but so far none has followed >> through to actually pushing something into the main netcf git. >> >> > just wait a second; did you actually say "patches"? :) What is the > original platform/distro of NetCF? > It was originally developed for Fedora and RHEL (RHEL5.x up to a point, but now only RHEL6 support is up-to-date due to libnl version incompatibilities on 5.x). Because the network config files differ for different distros, there are a couple of files that need to be different for each (or in some cases where two distros are very close, maybe they can share the same source files, with a few #ifdefs). The files defining the API, and implementing the toplevel functions of the API should be common to all platforms, and there is also a file of utility functions that should be useful on all Linux platforms (but not on Windows). As far as I know, the SuSE port was actually complete at one time, and was included in a released product (not sure what the product is),

but I don't know where the source is (aside from earlier versions posted to the list and available in the archives),

and the developers haven't had the resources available to clean it up and submit it back to the upstream project.