[Libguestfs] Rethinking appliance building

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 11:16:01PM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> Ok, here is where I am so far, but my ocaml is VERY weak, so it is slow
> going, I also added the right stuff to config.ml.in and Makefile.ml to make
> it work.

I've pushed it, untested of course, with some minor tidy up to comments:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=commitdiff;h=3e156a27f7f67c9e05f1b25261c2fe4a0f4e14ff

> it seems to work, but when I run febootstrap --names bash coreutils dcron
> dhcpcd e2fsprogs file filesystem findutils gawk grep grub gzip initscripts
> iputils kernel26 less libusb logrotate net-tools pacman sed shadow sysvinit
> tar tcp_wrappers udev util-linux-ng
> it only processes bash.

  let pacman_resolve_dependencies_and_download names =
    let cmd =
      sprintf "pactree -u %s | sort -u"
        (String.concat " " (List.map Filename.quote names)) in

The command that this generates would be something like

  pactree -u 'bash' 'coreutils' 'dcron' [etc...] | sort -u

Does pactree itself support multiple names here?

Rich.

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