From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvHpr-0006D4-Ps for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:12:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvHpp-0006Cj-Dq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:12:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48858 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvHpp-0006Cg-Ag for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:12:25 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:51938) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvHpp-0007i4-27 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:12:25 -0400 Received: from aurel32 by hall.aurel32.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LvHpm-0006mR-Tm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:12:22 +0200 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:12:22 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink Message-ID: <20090418211222.GD16360@hall.aurel32.net> References: <20090418160104.GA18120@volta.aurel32.net> <390D1A11-602E-4449-BEA0-EA431F91D109@web.de> <20090418174555.GA16360@hall.aurel32.net> <49EA1A15.1080803@mail.berlios.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <49EA1A15.1080803@mail.berlios.de> Sender: Aurelien Jarno Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 08:21:09PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote: > Aurelien Jarno schrieb: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:22:20PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > > > >> Am 18.04.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >> > >> > >>> For historical reasons, qemu system on i386 is called qemu instead of > >>> qemu-system-i386. This seems to confuse users. > >>> > >>> This patch installs it as qemu-system-i386, and create a compatibility > >>> symlink qemu -> qemu-system-i386 as some tools may call it that way. > >>> We can change or remove this symlink after a few releases when all the > >>> tools have migrated to this new name. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno > >>> > >> In general a good idea imo, but don't just assume you can create > >> symlinks on a given file system. Git uses hardlinks and copying as > >> fallbacks iirc. > >> > > > > For hardlinks that's clear. For symlinks, what (file)systems are you > > thinking of? > > NTFS? Can someone tries what ln does on such a system? We may do a copy instead in that case. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net