[libvirt PATCH 06/11] docs: Use more generic URL for netcat

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Tue May 24 08:45:09 UTC 2022


GNU netcat was last updated in 2004. These days, most operating
systems will include either the nmap or OpenBSD variant of the
tool.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
---
 build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 1 -
 docs/remote.rst           | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
index 7d7cf90b4b..82cbac3daf 100644
--- a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
+++ b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
@@ -904,7 +904,6 @@ http_sites += 0pointer.de
 http_sites += mah.everybody.org
 http_sites += mingw.org
 http_sites += munin.projects.linpro.no
-http_sites += netcat.sourceforge.net
 http_sites += www.nimbusproject.org
 http_sites += www.sflow.net
 http_sites += xmlsoft.org
diff --git a/docs/remote.rst b/docs/remote.rst
index 933166144d..bcc394e083 100644
--- a/docs/remote.rst
+++ b/docs/remote.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Remote libvirt supports a range of transports:
 ``ssh``
    Transported over an ordinary `ssh (secure
    shell) <https://www.openssh.com/>`__ connection. Requires `Netcat
-   (nc) <http://netcat.sourceforge.net/>`__ installed and libvirtd should be
+   (nc) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat>`__ installed and libvirtd should be
    running on the remote machine. You should use some sort of ssh key management
    (eg. `ssh-agent <http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh>`__) otherwise programs
    which use this transport will stop to ask for a password.
-- 
2.35.3



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