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dnsmasq usually prints out a version string like this: Dnsmasq version 2.82 [...] but a user reported that the build of dnsmasq included with pihole has a version string like this: Dnsmasq version pi-hole-2.81 [...] We parse the dnsmasq version number to figure out if the dnsmasq binary supports certain features. Since we expect the version number (and it must be only numbers!) to start on the first non-space after the string "Dnsmasq version", we fail to parse this format of the version string. Rather than spending a bunch of time trying to get pihole to change that, we can just make our parsing more permissive - after searching for "Dnsmasq version", we'll skip ahead to the first decimal digit, rather than just the first non-space. (NB: The features we're checking for purely by looking at version number have been in all releases of dnsmasq since at least 2012, so we could actually just remove the reading of the version number completely. However it's possible (although *highly* unlikely) that some new feature would be added to dnsmasq in the future and we would need to add that code back.) Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/29 Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code
that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU
General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files
COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license
terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: