[Libguestfs] Some comments on the libnbd apk in Alpine
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Oct 6 20:29:38 UTC 2023
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 03:54:46PM -0400, Sean McAvoy wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> the package in Alpine (edge) has recently been updated to 1.18.0. The
> mirrors should reflect that soon
Thank you
Rich.
>
> 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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