Arch Linux User Repository

Note: I won't use the ultimate splitting for Qemu (introduced by Qemu 7.0) until I get some help to migrate to the splitted PKGBUILD.

Note 2 : qemu-git packages are conflicting with qemu-desktop meta package. This package will need a lot of work and time to be corrected. Sorry.

My answer will be simple and short : 1) I will *not* split package. I want to give user the true git version. And my work is based on official PKGBUILD. 2) Piracy is piracy. If you want to use OS-X, just buy a mac. 3) If you're not happy with this version, just grab it, modify it and fork it. Sincerely yours, PS : just show me that virt-manager is something really needed to get qemu to work. You cannot. http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ "Initially Xen was the primary platform supported, however, since libvirt 0.2.0 and virt-manager 0.3.1 it is possible to manage QEMU and KVM guests too. It is expected that support for additional hypervisors / virtualization products will expand even further over time as additional libvirt drivers are written. "

...and you should note that the arch package separates seabios out by removing it from qemu as well. You should at least split it off as a subpackage within the build.

No need to get high and mighty about the seabios thing. Some would argue that "piracy" in this case is just a violation of TOS...which isn't actually piracy. Either way, you're not including some file(s) that are required, as virt-manager doesn't work with your package, either... Maybe compare it with the official one?

"seabios-osx-git provides the latest bios, probably more new than qemu's - it's also patched to support OSX guests." This is another reason I will not use it. OS-X is a non-free OS. And emulating it is piracy to be clear. And I saw that last version of seabios git is nearly one month old... As old as the one in qemu-git code. So don't ask anymore for including your package. I will not and never do it.

seabios-osx-git provides the latest bios, probably more new than qemu's - it's also patched to support OSX guests.

Thanks for both PKGVER code and missing provide. But I will not remove for now bios files for one single reason : git code is providing up-to-date version.

Please do the following: remove the installation of /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin and instead rely on seabios or seabios-osx-git to provide it... add: provides=('qemu-spice') add: pkgver() { cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname" git describe --always | sed 's|-|.|g' } Thanks! Got my vote.