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From: andrzej zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:32:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb249edb0904190432n1c305d22vd0b5bbad43a29557@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EB097F.6050100@mail.berlios.de>

2009/4/19 Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>:
> For the current situation, qemu-system-i386 is reasonable,
> and a symbolic link to qemu for non-Windows platforms is
> a good solution.

Another point is that if you just download the new qemu tarball, build
it and install, the old /usr/local/bin/qemu binary will not be
overwritten if we don't create the symlink and a number of poeple will
think they're on a newer version than they're really using.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19 11:32 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 [this message]
2009-04-18 17:22 ` Andreas Färber
2009-04-18 17:45   ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 18:21     ` Stefan Weil
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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