[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: qemu and aqemu

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Sun Feb 12 20:15:34 UTC 2012


On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:40:24 -0600
Antonio Hernández Blas <hba.nihilismus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Robby Workman
> <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> >
> > The change is because "users" makes a better *default* (IMHO);
> > there's no real reason to require a special group that's not
> > already present, so I'd prefer the default to be this way.
> >
> 
> Ah ok, if this change is approved and used in the future i would
> recommend to update system/kvm-kmod/README to delete the mention of
> the kvm group. BTW, there's a new version [1] ;)


Stu has submitted it, and I made the udev rules change on this end.


> > Simply having a conflict is fine, so long as the contents are the
> > same, and they are for these other conflicts, so no, there's no
> > need to rename them.  Overwriting these files is completely harmless
> > regardless of which package is installed last.  That is *not* the
> > case for the qemu-system-x86_64 binary.
> >
> 
> Interesting, because ATM system/qemu (0.14.1) and system/qemu-kvm
> (1.0) are in different version which means they have different content
> and there's a conflict between them, but ATM!. So let me see, if
> qemu-kvm would depend on qemu then it would be needed to update them
> always at the same version so they can play nice or am i seeing a
> problem where there's no problem? :)


Well, the version diffs need to be fixed for sure...

Andrew, are you still interested in this, or do you want someone else to
handle it?  On a related note, have you seen the rest of this
thread?  :)

 -RW
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