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We've reached a point in lcitool where we can't steer its development
based solely on libvirt's needs IOW there will be times where a local
override of value (e.g. package mapping) will be necessary - an example
of this would be QEMU.
In case of this particular patch we need to add an override for the
cirrus FreeBSD 13 image we request in our CI to fix:
/usr/local/lib/libtasn1.so.6: Undefined symbol "strverscmp@FBSD_1.7"
The reason why we can't/should not make the fix in upstream lcitool
just yet is that we store a libosinfo ID in lcitool's OS target YAML
configs and at the time of writing this patch libosinfo does not have
a corresponding entry/ID for FreeBSD 13.2 so we have to stick with 13.1
in lcitool until they do so.
For the time being, the fix can easily be done on libvirt side as does
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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==============================
Libvirt API for virtualization
==============================
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management
daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the
API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other
languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as
mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the
website:
https://libvirt.org
License
=======
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files ``COPYING.LESSER``
and ``COPYING`` for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
============
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
============
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components
the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development
mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
=======
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
* libvirt-users@redhat.com (**for user discussions**)
* libvir-list@redhat.com (**for development only**)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contact.html