From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSf36-0008Ia-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:53:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSf35-0005fH-G2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:53:08 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-x241.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::241]:43025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSf35-0005el-A8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:53:07 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-x241.google.com with SMTP id t133-v6so20374632oif.10 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 01:53:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180612062430.GA15344@xz-mi> References: <20180612062430.GA15344@xz-mi> From: Peter Maydell Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:52:45 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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: QEMU Devel Mailing List 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. thanks -- PMM