On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:39:12AM +0200, Sean McAvoy wrote:
Hello Richard, I have updated the version to 1.16.0 and integrated your suggestions in Merge Request [1]. I have stared the project and will get updates when new releases are made and will update the Alpine package soon after.
Great thanks. Just a note that the stable branch (1.16.4) has a few fixes: https://download.libguestfs.org/libnbd/1.16-stable/ Rich.
Thanks for making great software.
Sean
[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/52132
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi Sean, the maintainers of libnbd here. Thanks for packaging libnbd in Alpine:
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/testing/libnbd/APKBUILD
I have a few comments:
(1) The url field should be "https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd" (The one you are using is an old, stale mirror)
(2) libxml2-dev is not listed as a dependency.
We had a request from an Alpine user to add this dependency because it enables several important features in libnbd, namely NBD URI support and some utilities which require URI support.
It shouldn't be too much trouble to add since it appears that libxml2 is already built in Alpine.
(3) libnbd 1.18 (next stable) will be released in a week or two: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-September/032590.html
If you have any questions or comments about the package you can send them to me and/or the mailing list (without subscribing if you don't want to).
Rich.
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