[Libguestfs] Some comments on the libnbd apk in Alpine

[Sean McAvoy]

Hi Richard,
the package in Alpine (edge) has recently been updated to 1.18.0. The
mirrors should reflect that soon


Thanks,

Sean

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:11 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:39:12AM +0200, Sean McAvoy wrote:
> > Hello Richard,
> > I have updated the version to 1.16.0 and integrated your suggestions in Merge
> > Request [1].
> > I have stared the project and will get updates when new releases are made and
> > will update the Alpine package soon after.
>
> Great thanks.  Just a note that the stable branch (1.16.4)
> has a few fixes:
>
> https://download.libguestfs.org/libnbd/1.16-stable/
>
> Rich.
>
> > Thanks for making great software.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/52132
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Sean, the maintainers of libnbd here.  Thanks for packaging libnbd
> >     in Alpine:
> >
> >     https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/testing/libnbd/APKBUILD
> >
> >     I have a few comments:
> >
> >     (1) The url field should be "https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd"
> >     (The one you are using is an old, stale mirror)
> >
> >     (2) libxml2-dev is not listed as a dependency.
> >
> >     We had a request from an Alpine user to add this dependency because it
> >     enables several important features in libnbd, namely NBD URI support
> >     and some utilities which require URI support.
> >
> >     It shouldn't be too much trouble to add since it appears that libxml2
> >     is already built in Alpine.
> >
> >     (3) libnbd 1.18 (next stable) will be released in a week or two:
> >     https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-September/032590.html
> >
> >     If you have any questions or comments about the package you can send
> >     them to me and/or the mailing list (without subscribing if you don't
> >     want to).
> >
> >     Rich.
> >
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