Re: [Libguestfs] fedoostrap or deboostrap requirement
Since debootstrap is available on gentoo i've installed it now
the build process fails with:
Warning: You are running debirf as root. There is a potential
for improperly written modules to damage your system.
Are you sure you wish to continue? [y|N]: y
Loading profile 'debian'...
debirf: creating debirf root...
E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/fedora-11
make[2]: *** [../initramfs/fakeroot.log] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.56/work/libguestfs-1.0.56/appliance'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.56/work/libguestfs-1.0.56'
make: *** [all] Error 2
why is it still looking for fedora based script and not debian one?
Thanks
Alex
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:57:01PM +0300, Piavlo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While trying to ./configure libguestfs on gentoo fails since it requires
> feboostrap or deboostrap
> Can this be made optional and not as necessary requirement, since there
> are still many useful uses for libguestfs
> besides bootstrapping, which can be used on distros like gentoo.
>
You probably want to read this:
http://www.libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#state_machine_and_low_level_even...
and this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-May/msg00003.html
The choices are:
(1) Port febootstrap + yum to Gentoo (not so hard).
(2) Change libguestfs to use portage. (This was already done for the
Debian/debootstrap combo).
(3) Use the binary blobs from another machine, but note that we no
longer build full appliances in the Fedora RPMs.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391
Rich.