Re: [Libguestfs] febootstrap and zypper

On Mon, Oct 08, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:50:47PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > But out of interest, how are you creating this appliance? I thought > > > we'd ripped out support for old-style appliances from the rest of the > > > toolchain ... > > > > I use mkinitrd to pull in all tools and run guestfsd instead of > > /sysroot/sbin/init. This allows me to build the package automated as > > unprivileged user in the buildsystem. Creating a loop file requires > > root, which is cumbersome in the openSuSE buildservice. > > BTW, febootstrap (which is what we use) runs unprivileged and should > be able to process SuSE rpms. However it does require yum, not > zypper, but that's probably easy to fix if zypper has a way to take a > list of package names and resolve all the dependencies without needing > root and without needing to install any packages. I just looked at this. Does febootstrap do some sort of unrpm? Does it call %pre/%post install scripts?

zypper alone can not be used because it calls rpm, which does chroot. It can however download the required rpms and place them into a directory: zypper \ --verbose \ --verbose \ --gpg-auto-import-keys \ --root /dev/shm/${LOGNAME} \ --reposd-dir /etc/zypp/repos.d \ --pkg-cache-dir /dev/shm/${LOGNAME}--pkg-cache-dir \ --non-interactive \ install \ --auto-agree-with-licenses \ --no-recommends \ --download-only \ kernel-default So what do you suggest to do on a system with zypper/libzypp?