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Bug 354565 - app-emulation/qemu: improve the curl USE description
Summary: app-emulation/qemu: improve the curl USE description
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Luca Barbato
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Reported: 2011-02-12 04:07 UTC by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
Modified: 2012-01-22 11:11 UTC (History)
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Description Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-12 04:07:26 UTC 
Adding something like:
<flag name='curl'>Adds support for read-only http/ftp block devices</flag>
in the metadata.xml would make easier to understand why is there a curl use flag and what is for.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-12 04:08:30 UTC 
CCing the qemu herd
Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-12 04:40:18 UTC 
Picture a file on a HTTP or FTP server. Now picture QEMU using it as a block device. That's what CURL is used for. Please suggest better wording for that and I'd be glad to add it.
Comment 3 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-12 05:03:59 UTC 
<flag name='curl'>Adds support for read-only block device emulation based on files located on http and ftp servers<flag>

Better worded ;-)
Comment 4 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-14 00:13:37 UTC 
Looks like a reasonable suggestion to me
Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-22 11:11:12 UTC 
Pushed metadata fix with latest klondike's variant:

>  22 Jan 2012; Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> metadata.xml,
>  qemu-9999.ebuild:
>  Added LatticeMico32 (lm32) softmmu target. Added USE="nss rbd spice threads
>  +vhost-net xattr xen" to get control of some automagic depends (bug #326491 by
>  Diego Elio Pettenò); mostly picked from qemu-kvm-9999.ebuild. Updated USE=curl
>  description (bug #354565 by klondike).

Thanks guys!