Hi Richard, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39:46AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
[1/6] This adds the 5 patches which I posted upstream some time ago (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-December/thread.html#00039). They are rebased to libguestfs 1.0.84, but otherwise unchanged. I use quilt here to manage the patches, but actually quilt is a bit of a pain because it doesn't cooperate well with git. I wonder if it is better to store these as git commits? In any case, they need to be reworked and go upstream at some point. I usually store these as git commits and "serialize" them before building the package into quilt patches:
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/#index1h1 might help here. I won't object to storing them as git commits though.
[2/6] Change the mirror and repo for Ubuntu. Applied.
[3/6] Add a changelog entry. (Not sure if this is necessary or the 'proper' way to do this). I dropped this one. We usually generate the changelog just before release since it makes merging otherwise unnecessarily hard. You can e.g.
git-dch -N 1.0.64-1 -a to autogenerate the changelog (I'm currently hacking on making git-dch figure out the upstream version all by itself).
[4/6] 'make check' fails. In libguestfs >= 1.0.85 we will have a 'make quickcheck' rule, but in the meantime just run libguestfs-test-tool as a quick test that the package is mostly working. Applied.
[5/6] For some reason I don't understand, Ubuntu's Python site-packages are stored in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, even though Python _2.6_ is installed. This breaks the configure script, so we have to patch configure.ac _and_ configure. It's just a single line change to configure.ac, but the (generated) configure change is much larger. Applied.
[6/6] This patch contains two separate, mostly unrelated changes: (a) Ubuntu doesn't have libsys-virt-perl. Drop it as a dependency. (b) Also install virt-inspector, virt-df and virt-cat (might be applicable to the Debian branch too?) Yes, I'll cherry pick this one for Debian.
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-libvirt/libguestfs.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/... Thanks a lot! -- Guido