[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/2] daemon: Replace GUESTFSD_EXT_CMD with --print-external-commands.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 04:58:52PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi Olaf and Cédric,
> 
> On Monday, 24 July 2017 18:10:12 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Replace GUESTFSD_EXT_CMD with a command line option
> > ‘./guestfsd --print-external-commands’
> 
> This mini-series basically changes the way external programs used in
> the appliance are collected; this was done 5 years ago (!) as
> commit 0306c98d319d189281af3c15101c8d343e400f13, to help the creation
> of appliances in SUSE.
> 
> Is this mechanism still used there?  If so, is the approach done by Rich
> acceptable for you?  What are your use cases/constraints/etc? 

It is used:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/libguestfs/libguestfs.spec?rev=7

But as far as I can tell there's no barrier to replacing that objcopy
command with the [simpler] command:

  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/guestfsd --print-external-commands

Rich.

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