[Libguestfs] febootstrap and zypper

[Olaf Hering]

On Thu, Nov 29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:02:34PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > zypper \
> > >         --verbose \
> > >         --verbose \
> > >         --gpg-auto-import-keys \
> > >         --root /dev/shm/${LOGNAME} \
> > >         --reposd-dir /etc/zypp/repos.d \
> > >         --pkg-cache-dir /dev/shm/${LOGNAME}--pkg-cache-dir \
> > >         --non-interactive \
> > >         install \
> > >         --auto-agree-with-licenses \
> > >         --no-recommends \
> > >         --download-only \
> > >         kernel-default
> 
> By the way, does this download everything (even, for example,
> packages which are already installed at the latest version)?

It will download kernel-default from the configured repos in
/etc/zypp/repos.d into --pkg-cache-dir. Installed packaged will not be
considered. Does febootstrap work with installed packages?

Olaf