From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fT24f-00062Y-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:28:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fT24b-0001cH-GP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:28:17 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:39788 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fT24b-0001ay-CB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:28:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:28:09 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20180613092809.GF27901@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <20180612062430.GA15344@xz-mi> <20180613040259.GI15344@xz-mi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180613040259.GI15344@xz-mi> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is there a way to package QEMU binaries? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Maydell , QEMU Devel Mailing List On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:02:59PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:52:45AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 12 June 2018 at 07:24, Peter Xu 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. If you're interested in Fedora, I maintain a Copr repository which provides RPMs for every QEMU version since 1.4.0 and every libvirt version since 1.2.0... https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/berrange/virt-ark/ Yeah, Fedora 28 is missing, but I'll be adding it real soon. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|