[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.26 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:29:46AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Is there a way to get it to support 'pkg' the packaging utility for
> FreeBSD? It supports
> everything you noted above, will full API support.
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/

Yup, quite likely it would work in that case.  We would need patches
to add a package handler for pkgng.  Have a look at the dpkg package
handler for a similar example:

https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/dpkg.ml

Pino wrote a good summary of precisely what a package handler needs to
supply, but I can't find it right now ...

Rich.

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