[Libguestfs] [PATCH] packagelist: add initviocons package on SUSE

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 17:05 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 05:49:20PM +0100, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > initviocons package provides tools to resize the terminal. Having it
> > in the appliance will allow SUSE users to have proper line wrapping
> > in their terminal when using virt-rescue.
> > ---
> >  appliance/packagelist.in | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in
> > index f278f66..bbbe4b2 100644
> > --- a/appliance/packagelist.in
> > +++ b/appliance/packagelist.in
> > @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ ifelse(SUSE,1,
> >    glibc-locale
> >    gptfdisk
> >    hivex
> > +  initviocons
> >    iproute2
> >    iputils
> >    libcap2
> 
> This patch is fine, ACK.
> 
> I don't know if you're doing this already, but in Fedora we split up
> the appliance dependencies like this:
> 
>   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libguestfs.git/tree/libguestfs.spec#n992
> 
> If you install the 'libguestfs-rescue' subpackage, you get the extra
> dependencies (iputils, lsof, etc) added to virt-rescue.  If not, there
> are fewer dependencies.

We aren't doing that yet. May be we'll need to come up with something in that vein
sooner or later.

--
Cedric