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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org