Re: [Libguestfs] Some comments on the libnbd apk in Alpine

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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ > ~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html