Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
Add the podcheck.pl test, to make sure the documentation is in sync with
the available options.
Also fix the formats of options in the current POD, so it matches what
used already in other documentations, and what podcheck.pl expects.
Run the following command over the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[01][0-9])-2016/$1-2017/g' `git ls-files`
(Thanks Rich for the perl snippet, as used in past years.)
This changes podwrapper so that the input (POD) files should not
contain an =encoding directive. However they must be UTF-8.
Podwrapper then adds the '=encoding utf8' directive back during final
generation.
This in particular avoids problems with nested =encoding directives in
fragments. These break POD, and are undesirable anyway.
This large, but mainly mechanical commit, renames "attach method"
everywhere to "backend".
Backwards compatibility of the API (guestfs_{set,get}_attach_method)
and environment (LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD) is maintained, but in new
code use guestfs_{set,get}_backend and LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND instead.
The default backend (launching qemu directly) is now called 'direct'
instead of 'appliance', although you can still use 'appliance' as a
synonym.
section.
Ensure each man page contains consistent COPYRIGHT and AUTHOR
sections.
Remove the LICENSE section. We will add that back in podwrapper in a
later commit.
We could sometimes hit the 120 second timeout, eg. if the appliance
needed to be rebuilt and the machine was very slow and/or under heavy
I/O load. 10 minutes should be enough for any reasonable situation.
This simplifies the libguestfs-test-tool program down to essentials.
Bugs most commonly occur when starting the appliance, so what we
should concentrate on test is just that.
Previously the test tool built a special static binary helper program,
packaged it up in an ISO, then ran this inside the appliance. None of
this really tested useful failure modes, but they did make the test
tool itself harder to build, harder for users to run, and more
brittle.
This change also adds some more debugging of libguestfs state.
This is an end-user testing tool, designed to test basic functionality
of libguestfs/qemu/kernel combination on the end-user's final host
machine.
It does not perform a thorough test, but should be enough to find
most booting issues.
Also this is intended to be used when reporting bugs.
