[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Fixed QEMU 1.0.1 support

[Doug Goldstein]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:57:23AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 09/25/2012 06:54 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> >> On 25.09.2012 10:58, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
>> >>> This patch fixes incorrect help screen parsing for QEMU 1.0.1 package
>> >>> Version line changed from
>> >>>     QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>> >>> To
>> >>>     QEMU emulator version 1.0,1 (qemu-kvm-1.0.1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>> >>
>> >> This seems like a bug to me. If it is a micro version number, why is it
>> >> delimited with comma instead of dot? If it is not a micro version
>> >> number, can we threat it like it is?
>> >
>> > I agree, it smells very much like a QEMU/distro bug to me.
>>
>> It is an upstream bug:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg02527.html
>>
>> Distros should probably be backporting that particular patch, but
>> there's still the question of whether we should deal with it in libvirt
>> because it is upstream.
>
> Well it is a bug on only one branch of upstream, that was promptly
> fixed, so I still don't think we should complicate libvirt by dealing
> with it. It is trivial for QEMU maintainers to fix
>
>
> Daniel
> --

FWIW, the raw tarball from qemu.org still contains the bug. They
didn't reissue the tarball. First commit on the list here:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.0

-- 
Doug Goldstein