[Spice-devel] xpi, spicec, remote-viewer & update-alternatives

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:38:28PM +0100, David Jaša wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there is a problem with running the controller driven clients:
> > 
> >       * spice-xpi doesn't pass any option to spice-xpi-client symlink
> >       * remote-viewer expects --spice-controller option
> >       * spicec expects --controller option
> >       * spice-xpi doesn't know which client is target of
> >         spice-xpi-client symlink
> > 
> > The result is that current xpi can not run any client. I can see two
> > possibilites of getting this working again:
> > 
> >       * remote-viewer's --spice-controller option will change to
> >         --controller, spice-xpi will always run spice-xpi-client with
> >         --controller option
> >       * some magic is added to XPI to recognize client to which
> >         spice-xpi-client symlink points to and based on that, decide if
> >         it should be run with --controller or with --spice-controller.
> >         (I don't like this option, think about slightly different paths
> >         in different distros)
> >       * remote-viewer is modified so that it behaves like when run with
> >         --spice-controller option if file speficied SPICE_XPI_SOCKET
> >         exists, ignoring other options
>         * symlink points to a shell that is package specific, for spicec
>           it uses --controller, for remote-viewer it uses
>           --spice-controller.

Missed Daniel's reply, sorry for the repeat.

> > 
> > I don't want to file concrete bugs until it is decided what is the best
> > way.
> > 
> > David
> > 
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