On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 08:36:48PM +0100, Mathieu Bouillaguet wrote:
What are the drawbacks of using libguestfs with the fixed appliance
instead of supermin with builtin distrib support ?
It's not nice for you or Slackware that you will be relying on a
"binary blob" that you cannot rebuild from source (except by
installing Fedora or Debian, of course).
It's what Gentoo are doing however. Their ebuild downloads the
Fedora-based fixed appliance from
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ , unpacks it
somewhere and sets the paths as appropriate.
Reference:
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/libguestfs
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance
Rich.
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