From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EA1A15.1080803@mail.berlios.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090418174555.GA16360@hall.aurel32.net>
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 <aurelien@aurel32.net>
>>>
>> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-18 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 16:01 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 16:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-19 11:22 ` Stefan Weil
2009-04-19 11:32 ` andrzej zaborowski
2009-04-18 17:22 ` Andreas Färber
2009-04-18 17:45 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 18:21 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2009-04-18 21:12 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 22:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-18 23:43 ` Re : " Sylvain Petreolle
2009-04-19 2:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-18 18:34 ` Blue Swirl
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