[fedora-virt] [ANNOUNCE] New release virt-manager 0.7.0

[Stephen Gallagher]

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Cole Robinson wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>> Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> I'm happy to announce a new virt-manager release, version 0.7.0. The
>>> release can be downloaded from:
>>>
>>> http://virt-manager.org/download.html
>>>
>>> The direct download link is:
>>>
>>> http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.7.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>> This release includes:
>>>
>>>   - Redesigned 'New Virtual Machine' wizard
>>>         (Jeremy Perry, Tim Allen, Cole Robinson)
>>>   - Option to remove storage when deleting a virtual machine.
>>>   - File browser for libvirt storage pools and volumes, for use when
>>>       attaching storage to a new or existing guest.
>>>   - Physical device assignment (PCI, USB) for existing virtual machines.
>>>   - Bug fixes and minor improvements.
>>>
>>> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
>>> bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Cole
> 
>> I just attempted to build an RPM for Fedora 10 using the tarball linked
>> above. It failed at two separate points. First, it could not build the
>> manpages, because no Makefile existed in man/en. Once I copied the
>> Makefile from the repository, it also failed missing the
>> python-virtinst.spec file.
>>
> 
> Ah, yes building an rpm from the extracted tarball has some issues, I'll
> fix these upstream. For future reference, you can just do:
> 
> rpmbuild -ta virtinst-0.400.3.tar.gz
> 
> And it will build an rpm. To install without an rpm, 'cd' into the
> checkout and run:
> 
> python setup.py build && python setup.py install
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole

That's part of what I was trying to tell you: setup.py build does not
work in that tarball. It's missing a makefile in man/en


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