[Fedora-xen] virt* source

[Richard W.M. Jones]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Agreed -- this is simply a bug in virt-manager.
> 
> There are a few other places the virt* programs have fixed ideas about 
> where stuff must be:
> [summer at potoroo virt]$ find * -type f -exec grep -HE '/usr/(|s)bin' {} 
> \; | grep -Ev '/usr/bin/(perl|python)'

By and large these are not bugs.  It would only be a bug if an installed 
program contains a hard-coded path, and the path is not discovered by 
(eg) ./configure, and there is no way around the hard-coded path at 
runtime, and the user could conceivably want to use a different binary.

Rich.

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