Re: [Libguestfs] Rethinking appliance building

The febootstrap 3.0 package is now available: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/ http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=commitdiff;h=66a9d53e48f14d7f... libguestfs 1.7.19 includes a relatively large set of changes to build using febootstrap 3.0: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=6d75ce8e6ca1f3f0a... This has been tested on Fedora 14 and Debian 5.05. There are a few issues described below. On Fedora: - The yum dependency resolving script fails if the yum repos are out of date. If you get an error during 'make' which seems to indicate the yum is trying to write to one of the root-owned yum directories, you need to do 'sudo yum update' (don't need to actually install any packages), then repeat the operation. I'll ask the yum maintainers how to fix this. On Debian: - /sbin/insmod.static is not packaged on Debian. febootstrap-supermin-helper needs this in order to build the appliance. I ended up building a version by hand. - qemu is ancient. You need qemu 0.13 from experimental. - kernel 2.6.32 is ancient. You need to upgrade to 2.6.36 from experimental. - udev gives a big scary warning in the appliance about how it is being run interactively (not actually true) and then pauses for 60 seconds. The warning is wrong, but this means that the Debian appliance has an unnecessary 60 second wait during launch. - The test for db_dump / db_load in configure is wrong somehow (not looked at this closely yet). As a result the phony images in images/ cannot be built during 'make check'. - There are a handful of failing tests on Debian. Not looked closely but doesn't seem too serious. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora