[Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: Require libmagic.

[Pino Toscano]

On Monday, 27 February 2017 13:19:28 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> If libmagic isn't installed then the guestfs_file_architecture API
> doesn't work.  This means that inspection will always return
> <arch>unknown</arch> for every guest.  This subtly breaks a few
> features.  In particular it was reported that the
> virt-builder/virt-customize --install option did not work because the
> "unknown" architecture of the guest was not compatible with the host.
> 
> libmagic is a small, widely available C library, so the easiest fix is
> just to make it mandatory.
> 
> Reported by: Solarix on IRC
> ---

LGTM.

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Pino Toscano
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