Re: [Libguestfs] Add support for slackware in supermin
Hi,
(please do not top-reply...)
On Tuesday 11 November 2014 18:32:10 Mathieu Bouillaguet wrote:
What I was suggesting, is to let the user manage depencies himself.
This is what slackware users are used to do anyway.
It means that we should be able to provide an exhaustive list of
needed packages on the command line.
As the semantic differ from the usual treatment of the PACKAGES
arguments of supermin --prepare, this could be managed by a new
option implying "do not search or install depencies for the given
packages".
What do you think ?
What you are suggesting covers just one of the requirements of supermin
for the package manager. The others, which I wrote in a previous email,
are:
- query name, version, epoch (if existing), architecture of a package
- get the last "change time" of the package manager
- get the file list of a package (possibly with the information about
which ones are "configuration files")
- download a package
What supermin needs seems not met by the too limited package management
on slackware, I'm afraid.
On the other hand, this does not imply you cannot use libguestfs: with a
driver-less supermin, you can build libguestfs without an appliance
(--disable-appliance), and use a "fixed appliance", i.e. an appliance
built on a different system, pointing libguestfs to it. See also
"LIBGUESTFS_PATH" in
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#environment-variables
and you can find our Fedora-based appliances here:
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/
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Pino Toscano