Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Move qemu-binfmt-conf.sh to Debian model

[Alexander Graf]

> Am 28.01.2016 um 21:27 schrieb Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>:
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> Le 28/01/2016 20:22, Alexander Graf a écrit :
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>>> On 01/28/2016 08:16 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
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>>> Le 27/01/2016 15:10, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>> The qemu-binfmt-conf.sh script has been pretty unmaintained for most
>>>> of its
>>>> time. The reason is simply that few distributions actually use the
>>>> file as
>>>> is.
>>> I've a version of this script supporting debian, systemd (because it
>>> will rule the world) and credential:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/vivier/qemu-m68k/blob/680x0-v2.4.0/scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm using this for years, on debian/ubuntu and Fedora. To use parameters
>>> is better than env vars, IMHO.
>> 
>> Yes, your version looks a lot more advanced than mine. The only thing
>> I'm missing is for a simple "give me all cpu types" so that programmatic
>> systemd file generation doesn't have to grep through the usage help text.
>> 
>> Also, no arguments should probably preserve the old behavior of just
>> registering it locally.
>> 
>> Care to push it upstream? :)
> 
> Last time I tried, Peter would prefer to separate data and scripts:
> 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/478486/
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> and I'm not ready to do that (to much work for what I want).
> 
> Peter, if you agree to take the file as-is, I can resend the last
> version. :)

The script can generate data files just fine, no? So if a distro only wants 
those, they can call the script at packaging time.

Alex

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> Laurent