[Libguestfs] Problem with febootstrap version while compiling guestfsd in centos6.5

[Safa Rekik]

Thank you very much for your help, we will give it a try !


2014-02-27 13:24 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Safa Rekik wrote:
> > Ah OK, and what about generating the libguestfs-live-service for centos
> ? I
> > know that they may compatibilities issues with the distribution of source
> > rpm for fedora >=16
>
> We don't want to support libguestfs-live on RHEL, and the only way to
> enable it in CentOS would be to enable it in RHEL too.
>
> FWIW RHEL 6 carries the following patch:
>
>
> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f87bb94ce53e991dd29f0b4731c688413c5b7024
>
> You could modify the libguestfs RHEL 6 spec file, remove that patch.
>
> You'll also need to modify the spec file to add the live-service
> subpackage.  As an example of what to do, see the Fedora spec file:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/plain/libguestfs.spec
> and search for the string 'live-service'.
>
> Actually I just realized that uses systemd units, not sysvinit, so
> that's not totally simple to emulate on RHEL 6.
>
> > Actually i prefer not have all our guests overburdened with the
> libguestfs
> > package while we just need the daemon.
>
> You can compile libguestfs on one machine, and copy the
> libguestfs-live-service RPM to the guests.
>
> > Beside i believe that with the live-service packege, closing the guestfs
> > handle does not cause the daemon to exit (correct me if i am wrong)
>
> This is correct, yes.
>
> Rich.
>
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