<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 05/26/2009 11:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090526150117.GD30514@amd.home.annexia.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:56:03PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I've been looking at the postings here more closely now that I have a Ubuntu guest running, and I decided to compile libguestfs-1.0.31 in Fedora 11. It took some time for me to get the dependencies installed. Question: what packages do I need for the ruby bindings? What package represents rake? How about OCaml bindings -- what packages are needed to get it to build? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If you're just trying to get libguestfs to run on Fedora 11, then I strongly suggest starting off with the packages we are building for Fedora 11. You should be able to get them from updates, ie: yum --enablerepo=updates install libguestfs guestfish ocaml-libguestfs-devel [etc...] and if that doesn't work, you can get them from Koji: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391">http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391</a> Select the latest package with '.fc11' in the name. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">When building this file as part of `make`: initramfs.fedora-11.x86_64.img I got an awesome number of errors related to my not being the root user, but I assume those errors are okay since I built as an ordinary user. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You'll get a few errors. Lots of these errors go away if you use the newest possible version of fakechroot (eg. 2.9-22). </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Also the perl documentation process came up with a large number of errors. After doing `make check` I got this result: Test boot completed after 10 iterations. PASS: test-bootbootboot.sh ================== All 2 tests passed ================== </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That looks very good. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Am I ready for 'make install' -- is libguestfs built sufficiently well for that? Although I would like to get the ruby and OCaml bindings to build. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 'make install' ought to work. We never use it because we build RPMs and install those. Rich. </pre> </blockquote> Okay, thanks for pointing me to Koji. Can I set up a yum repo for it? How do I code it? Also, can I set up a repo for Fedora 12 updates in Fedora 11, using Mark's suggested repo coding? Or has the location for Fedora 12 updates changed to Koji? If I take in Fedora 12 versions, will I risk my virtual machines dropping dead? Thanks Bob </body> </html>