[fedora-virt] libguestfs 'supermin appliance'

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Jun 16 02:46:52 UTC 2009


Very nice.  I could have used a variation on this in a previous life 
building one-off Redhat-derived distros.  My hack was considerably less 
clever.

On 06/15/2009 03:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> To explain what this all means, read this:
 >+Furthermore there are certain unlikely changes in the packages on the
 >+host which could break a supermin appliance, eg. an updated library
 >+which depends on an additional data file.

So does this mean that it doesn't consult RPM for those dependencies on 
each build (or a 're-config' pass?) or just that there may be 
poorly-constructed RPM's that don't properly reference their dependencies?

-Bill

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