[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#573172: Bug#573172: libvirt0: netcat -q option prevents remote connections

[Hans J. Koch]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:09:59PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:44:58PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > The server runs Fedora, with an openbsd nc installed. It knows the option -U
> > so I don't have the problem reported in #538799. Unfortunately, nc.openbsd
> > doesn't know -q. On the other hand, nc.traditional knows -q, but not -U.
> > The usage of both options in one nc commandline completly breaks things.
> The issue is, that there are several netcat.openbsd variants around.
> Those in fedora don't know about -q, those on Debian need it. Upstream
> is working on resolving this.

Upstream didn't introduce -q, you did. If Upstream is willing to work on this,
fine. But you should first revert your patch, because while trying to solve a
minor problem, you caused a bigger one.

> 
> As a workaround you can filter out -q with a simple shell wrapper on the
> Fedora end.

That's certainly not a serious solution.

Hans