[Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: febootstrap in Debian

[Nikita A Menkovich]

What the difference between appliances built with febootstrap and raw
image, that could be built with debootstrap, and putting contents of
debootstrap directory to image?

On 23 May 2011 11:39, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:17:18PM +0400, Nikita A Menkovich wrote:
>> Maybe it will be better to create separate package, that will provides
>> appliances.
>>
>> And this will provide OS appliance created right way for current OS.
>> For Debian/Ubuntu - debootstra for example.
>> So we will write script for current OS, and this won't be a hack
>
> Such a package exists -- debirf on Debian.  Guido made a heroic effort
> to port libguestfs to use debirf already.
>
> The problem is that the debirf/debootstrap combination simply does not
> work.  It was constantly full of bugs and does not work more often
> than it does work.
>
> It was because I constantly had to deal with these bugs that I removed
> debirf support and replaced it with the cross-platform febootstrap 3.x
> that we are using now.
>
> Rich.
>
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>



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