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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is there a way to package QEMU binaries?
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:52:45AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 June 2018 at 07:24, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> > For example, I wanted to compile QEMU once and install it on multiple
> > systems.  What would be the suggested way to do so?
> 
> For this, I would recommend using whatever the packaging
> format for those systems is. Eg for Debian use the existing
> Debian QEMU packages, for Redhat systems use RPMs, etc.
> If you want a newer version of QEMU than is in the distro's
> packages, you can probably forward port the packaging parts
> to a newer QEMU without too much pain.
> 
> Or you can use a distro-agnostic packaging tool of some sort;
> there are a few out there but I have no particular recommendations.

I'll start my investigation with RPM first.  Thanks Peter.

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Peter Xu