From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvVFt-0002uB-PH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:32:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvVFm-0002rP-Lp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:32:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42404 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvVFm-0002rB-0n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:32:06 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f175.google.com ([209.85.218.175]:47974) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvVFl-0003H7-CR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:32:05 -0400 Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so59976bwz.34 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:32:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49EB097F.6050100@mail.berlios.de> References: <20090418160104.GA18120@volta.aurel32.net> <49EA030A.8090104@codemonkey.ws> <49EB097F.6050100@mail.berlios.de> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:32:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink From: andrzej zaborowski Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 2009/4/19 Stefan Weil : > 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