[fedora-virt] libguestfs under Debian / Ubuntu

[Emre Erenoglu]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Tim Tassonis<timtas at cubic.ch> wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:09:50PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Just came across libguestfs and, as a qemu user, this project really
>>> sound fantastic to me.
>>>
>>> However, when I tried to compile the latest tarball, I failed,  mainly
>>> because of the inavalability of febootstrap, which obviously does not exist
>>> under ubuntu, and cannot be installed due to the lack of yum under ubuntu at
>>> least.
>>
>> Even though Debian/Ubunut use APT for their package mgmt system, there
>> should not be any problem installing the YUM + RPM libraries. This should
>> allow febootstrap to be built & run, and not impact your host OS package
>> mgmt
>
> Yes, of course....but since it is mentioned that febootstrap is based on
> debootstrap, is there a technical reason for not just supporting debootstrap
> alternatively. I haven't got enough background regarding
> debootstrap/febootstrap and libguestfs to make a judgement about this
> though.
>
> But to require any distribution to install yum/rpm just for this library
>  seems a bit intrusive to me. Requiring a specific distro packaging system
> for a package seems a bit distribution dependant to me.

This is exactly my problem. I didn't really analyze why febootstrap or
debootstrap might be technically needed, but I appreciate if there's
an alternative way to this requirement. Our distro, possibly some
others out there, do not have any {fe,de]bootstrap packages.

Thanks,

Emre