Re: [Libguestfs] Plans for libguestfs

During last week, I finally got some packages for libguestfs and bindings done. The repository at git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-libvirt/libguestfs.git has been updated to 1.10.6-2 which I have also uploaded to experimental. (The packages haven't appeared in the archive yet, though.) Before shifting my attention to the 1.12 release, I'd like to make sure that things work as expected. Please test the packages. I haven't had any opportunity to test anything so far because during this last week I lacked access to a KVM-capable machine. An outstanding issue is how the appliance, the archive of files, mostly executables and libraries, needed to operate the VM, should be handled: Having it generated at build-time and shipping it as part of a .deb would be suboptimal both from a security and a maintenance perspective. For now, I have modified the build system a bit so that the build script and package lists are generated. I have added a README.Debian that tells the user how to call what script to manually generate the appliance after the package has been installed.

I think that there should be a /usr/sbin/update-guestfs-appliance script that may be called from postinst if the user asks via Debconf. Another issue has to do with the Python bindings: The autoconf/automake-based build system will only build the bindings for one Python version (which happens to be 2.6 at the moment). I would like to change that, but I haven't found an easy way short of rebuilding (almost) the wohle package for every Python version.

Any comments and patches/contributions are welcome, of course.