[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: drop or merge qemu-kvm

[Robby Workman]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:59:30 -0800
King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/25/2013 10:19 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> > Here I'm using the new version since some time, if you want to try
> > them I got some updates on git
> > 
> > http://cgit.ponce.cc/slackbuilds/commit/?h=qemu
> > http://cgit.ponce.cc/slackbuilds/commit/?h=usbredir
> > http://cgit.ponce.cc/slackbuilds/commit/?h=spice-protocol
> > http://cgit.ponce.cc/slackbuilds/commit/?h=spice
> > 
> > seems it plays fine with the newer libvirt/virt-manager (all this
> > stuff is available in the SBo-git repo), also without the qemu-kvm
> > symlink.
> > 
> > yes, aqemu development seems stopped so it doesn't support this new
> > version very well...
> > 
> > 
> Mateo,
> when I go to http://cgit.ponce.cc/slackbuilds/commit/?h=qemu and d/l
> the snapshot "slackbuilds-qemu.tar.gz" I get a copy of your entire
> repo tree.  Somehow that does now seem to be the correct behavior?
> Or, if it is, then the file naming is incorrect?


That's the correct behavior - what you're actually getting is a
snapshot of the source tree as of that commit.

What you probably want to do instead is clone his git repo to a
local directory, then cd into it, "git checkout qemu" and then
copy ./system/qemu/ to wherever you want it :-)

-RW
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