<div dir="ltr">I was missing inifiles .. how supermin works, but returns an error: > supermin -v --names bash supermin 4.1.1 selected package handler: zypp-rpm + unset LANG LC_COLLATE + tmpdir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp + cache_dir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/cache-dir + pkg_cache_dir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/pkg_cache_dir + zypper --verbose --verbose --root /tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/root --reposd-dir /etc/zypp/repos.d --cache-dir /tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/cache-dir --pkg-cache-dir /tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/pkg_cache_dir --gpg-auto-import-keys --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive install --auto-agree-with-licenses --download-only bash Verbosity: 2 Entering non-interactive mode. Entering 'no-gpg-checks' mode. Warning: Turning on '--gpg-auto-import-keys'. New repository signing keys will be automatically imported! Non-option program arguments: 'bash' Initializing Target Failed to mount [server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on /var/tmp/AP_0x8DLPyL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that) Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a Repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it. Loading repository data... Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' data... Checking whether to refresh metadata for SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234 Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' metadata [\] Failed to mount [server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on /var/tmp/AP_0x40mPGL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that) Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' metadata [error] Repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' is invalid. [|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s) History: - Failed to mount [server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on /var/tmp/AP_0x40mPGL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that) - Can't provide /media.1/media Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Problem loading data from 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' Resolvables from 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' not loaded because of error. Reading installed packages... Force resolution: No 'bash' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'bash' found. real 0m0.091s user 0m0.052s sys 0m0.016s supermin: external shell program failed, see earlier error messages </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:50:01AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote: > Now, I installed supermin from git. During configuration it discovered > zypper: > </div>> *checking for zypper... zypper <div class="im">> checking for yum... no > checking for rpm... rpm > checking for yumdownloader... no > checking for aptitude... no > checking for apt-cache... apt-cache > checking for dpkg... no > checking if apt-cache depends --recurse is broken... yes </div>> checking for pacman... no* <div class="im">> > I have the following file: > </div>> *> cat /etc/SuSE-release <div class="im">> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) > VERSION = 11 </div>> PATCHLEVEL = 2* <div class="im">> > What am I missing here ? > Why do I get this error ? </div>First, let's see if your copy of supermin works at all. Try: /path/to/your/supermin -v --names bash Does that work? If not, what's the precise error message? Secondly, is libguestfs using your compiled-from-git supermin or some other supermin that you happen to have installed? Thirdly, take a look at the zypper module in supermin sources (supermin/src/<a href="http://supermin_zypp_rpm.ml" target="_blank">supermin_zypp_rpm.ml</a>) and examine how OS detection works. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a> libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. <a href="http://libguestfs.org" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org</a> </blockquote></div> -- <div dir="ltr"> Or Goshen CTO Cerbercomm Mob: 972-50-9182418</div> </div>