[Libguestfs] ArchLinux port

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:08:23AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> > I have febootstrap ported to and working on Arch, but there are a few
> > packages missing from the main Arch repos, and the packages need to be in
> > the main repos for the febootstrap sequence to work.
> > So I have a few quick questions, first,
> > how well does the supermin app work, without augeas,
> > are zfs, gfs and hfs used only for mounting those filesystems inside the
> vm
> > image,
>
> It's possible to use libguestfs without various features compiled in.
> These features can be detected at runtime by programs using the API:
>
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#availability
>
> The lack of filesystem support just means that programs will encounter
> an error when they try to mount or create those filesystems.  For the
> ones you mentioned it's not really important.
>
> Augeas (lack of) is going to be a problem: currently the inspection
> API will fail if Augeas is not available in the appliance.  This is
> basically a bug in the inspection API:
>
>
> http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=src/inspect.c;h=8b21026830d9a6711cca6220369a040b52da23a5;hb=HEAD#l2181
>
> but instead of fixing this I think it's better to package Augeas since
> it's a tremendously useful tool for distros to include.
>
> > and I noticed that there is an option to load a mirror for fedora to use
> > when building, can that option be used to pass data into the package
> manager
> > handler?
>
> I believe this option should be gone with the latest building code.
> Maybe I missed something?
>
> We use the ./configure --with-febootstrap-yum-config option when
> building on Fedora builders, where there is no network access.  The
> way it works is convoluted, but I suggest starting here:
>
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=libguestfs.spec;h=33f588678054f2e3408042db2f6f9a4512e80004;hb=HEAD#l429
>
> > In which case I can solve everything by adding a secondary binary
> > repository location to the package build.
> >
> > But beside these problems, the pacman package handler is working!
>
> Excellent, look forward to the patches :-)
>
> Rich.
>
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I found a better way! Here are the patches, one for febootstrap and one for
the packages list in libguestfs.

One quick question about the packages, where do I pass the option to use the
ArchLinux section in the packages list?

Also, thanks for being patient with me and helping me get this put together.
:)

-Tom
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