[Libvir] PATCH: Add dep on 'nc' RPM

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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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