Public bug reported: The official documentation for the user-space emulator[1] contains many references to binary blobs no longer provided by QEMU.org for download. The parts mentioning them should be rephrased to avoid confusion and instructions for building these components should be provided (maybe as a reference to the LFS book with some scripts, or... cut a deal with some super slim Linux distros). The specific parts are:
* qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz, a wine build under the prefix /wine. * qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz, a glibc build. [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html In addition, the documentation contains many other instances of inexistent "tar.gz" files, such as in "Network emulation". Most of these are inherited from the days of texi documentation more than 10 years ago, and they are so old that GitHub's blame have become unreliable. Someone really should run `fgrep -r 'tar.gz' doc' on the QEMU source tree. The issue was previously reported as [2], but nobody bother enough to google the filename to find out where the confused user got the idea from. [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569174.html ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: documentation ** Description changed: The official documentation for the user-space emulator[1] contains many references to binary blobs no longer provided by QEMU.org for download. The parts mentioning them should be rephrased to avoid confusion and instructions for building these components should be provided (maybe as - a reference to the LFS book with some scripts). The specific parts are: + a reference to the LFS book with some scripts, or... cut a deal with + some super slim Linux distros). The specific parts are: * qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz, a wine build under the prefix /wine. * qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz, a glibc build. - [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html + [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html In addition, the documentation contains many other instances of inexistent "tar.gz" files, such as in "Network emulation". Most of these are inherited from the days of texi documentation more than 10 years ago, and they are so old that GitHub's blame have become unreliable. Someone really should run `fgrep -r 'tar.gz' doc' on the QEMU source tree. The issue was previously reported as [2], but nobody bother enough to google the filename to find out where the confused user got the idea from. - [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569174.html + [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569174.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1884982 Title: User-emu documentation mentions inexistent "runtime" downloads Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The official documentation for the user-space emulator[1] contains many references to binary blobs no longer provided by QEMU.org for download. The parts mentioning them should be rephrased to avoid confusion and instructions for building these components should be provided (maybe as a reference to the LFS book with some scripts, or... cut a deal with some super slim Linux distros). The specific parts are: * qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz, a wine build under the prefix /wine. * qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz, a glibc build. [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html In addition, the documentation contains many other instances of inexistent "tar.gz" files, such as in "Network emulation". Most of these are inherited from the days of texi documentation more than 10 years ago, and they are so old that GitHub's blame have become unreliable. Someone really should run `fgrep -r 'tar.gz' doc' on the QEMU source tree. The issue was previously reported as [2], but nobody bother enough to google the filename to find out where the confused user got the idea from. [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu- de...@nongnu.org/msg569174.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1884982/+subscriptions
