[Fedora-xen] virt* source

[John Summerfield]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> I've checked out the source virt*, but I cannot tell that it's newer 
>> than I have.
>>
>> The changelog for virt-manager suggests not.
>>
>> Mercurial doesn't set file times to those on the server, so they reflect 
>> when I checked it out rather than what's in the repo.
> 
> The changelog isn't updated frequently, usually only with releases. To see
> actual changes and the times they were made, use the 'hg log' command in the
> checked out repo.


Thanks, looks much better. Several changes I see hit problems I've seen.



> 
>> I planned to build from source and install to /usr/local, but this 
>> suggests my idea is impractical:
>>
>> virtinst--devel/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py:        cmd = 
>> ["/usr/bin/virsh", "console", "%s" %(self.domain.ID(),)]
>>
>> Surely, the location of executable components should not be hard-coded 
>> in the source tree. I could live with it, grudgingly, if it was set at 
>> configure time.
>>
> 
> I don't really know the solution to that. If virt-install pulled 'virsh' from
> the shell path, /usr/local would take precedence. But there may be drawbacks
> to that which I dont know.

It should use $PATH, but does not. See my reply to Richard's. I can't 
test bleeding-edge without upsetting standard F8 versions.





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