Re: [Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: febootstrap in Debian
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:17:18PM +0400, Nikita A Menkovich wrote:
Maybe it will be better to create separate package, that will
provides
appliances.
And this will provide OS appliance created right way for current OS.
For Debian/Ubuntu - debootstra for example.
So we will write script for current OS, and this won't be a hack
Such a package exists -- debirf on Debian. Guido made a heroic effort
to port libguestfs to use debirf already.
The problem is that the debirf/debootstrap combination simply does not
work. It was constantly full of bugs and does not work more often
than it does work.
It was because I constantly had to deal with these bugs that I removed
debirf support and replaced it with the cross-platform febootstrap 3.x
that we are using now.
Rich.
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