[Libguestfs] IRC question: squashfs

[Pino Toscano]

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:26:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> >From josv on IRC:
> 
> > Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the
> > fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in this
> > installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available squashfs
> > returns "error: squashfs: group not available").  What would be the
> > recommended way to have the squashfs feature available?
> 
> $ guestfish -a /dev/null run : supported
> ...
>         squashfs no
> ...
> 
> $ rpm -q squashfs-tools
> squashfs-tools-4.3-12.fc24.x86_64
> 
> I think actually this is a bug.  I'll take a look into it tomorrow.

It looks like the Fedora packaging does not have squashfs-tools as
Build-Require -- adding it should do the job.

Speaking of Fedora: the libosinfo dependency can be changed to
osinfo-db in f25+, as we just need the osinfo data.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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