On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:37 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 08:26:26PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using latest libguestfs won't be possible since I want NTFS support too.
> And I don't want to compile libguestfs separately for CentOS 7 Unless I can
> comfortably use the libguestfs which I compiled on CentOS 8 and use it for
> CentOS 7.
>
> Symlink also won't help ?
> /usr/sbin/resize2fs -> /my-dir/my-resize2fs
>
> Latest resize2fs is helping in solving my issue but not the stock one present
> in CentOS 7

To use a newer e2fsprogs what you want is _not_ a newer libguestfs,
but a newer e2fsprogs. So you might try compiling the e2fsprogs
source RPM from CentOS 8 on CentOS 7, ie.
rpmbuild --rebuild e2fsprogs-1.45.6-1.el8.src.rpm

Source packages can be found under here:
https://vault.centos.org/8-stream/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/

Once that is installed on your host, supermin will pick it up.

Rich.

>
> On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:19 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:50:35PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your response.
> >
> > You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/
> > So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is compiled in
> some
> > other path as well using file : hostfiles ?
>
> If there are particular files that you want to copy to the appliance
> you might do something like:
>
> # cat > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/zz-extra-files <<EOF
> /path/to/my/file1
> /path/to/my/file2
> /path/to/my/other*
> EOF
>
> However this might not help to include standard utilities like
> resize2fs. supermin will normally copy the host file
> (eg. /usr/sbin/resize2fs) to the appliance, and that will probably be
> the old version of the utility, unless you can update it on the host.
>
> Very much depends what exactly you are trying to do.
>
> Rich.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with
> libguestfs
> > 1.28.
> > > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one
> compiled
> > on the
> > > server separately ?
> >
> > Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed
> > on the host and copies it into the guest.
> >
> > If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into the
> > appliance by listing them in a file under
> > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/ See:
> >
> > https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES
> >
> > libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago).
> > Is there no option to upgrade it?
> >
> > Rich.
> >
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> > Jevin Gala
> >
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