Re: [Libvir] PATCH: Add dep on 'nc' RPM
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:38:54PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>The libvirt SSH tunnelling support requires 'nc' to operate. The libvirt
>RPM does not, however, have any dependancy on 'nc'. So by default it is
>pure luck whether you can use SSH tunnelling after installing the libvirt
>package & starting the daemon. Even though we don't technically need it
>on the client end, I figure nc is so small we may as well add a dep to
>the main libvirt RPM. This ensures nc is present anywhere the daemon is.
It's an obvious +1 for this RPM dependency.
I wonder if we should also check at configure time for the version of nc
in Debian which doesn't have the '-U' option? Even though someone might
compile on Debian but use the resulting client to connect to a Red Hat
system ... The original plan was to bundle a 'nc' replacement
('libvirtd-cat') for people to run on the remote system.
Does debian have 'socat' by chance ?
# socat stdio unix-connect:/var/lib/xend/xend-socket
GET /
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal server error
Content-length: 0
Expires: -1
Content-type: application/sxp
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-cache
If so, we could install a 'nc' shell script which called to socat to
emulate it on Debian ?
Dan.
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