Re: [Libguestfs] Add support for slackware in supermin

Hi, (please do not top-reply...) On Tuesday 11 November 2014 18:32:10 Mathieu Bouillaguet wrote: > What I was suggesting, is to let the user manage depencies himself. > > This is what slackware users are used to do anyway. > > It means that we should be able to provide an exhaustive list of > needed packages on the command line. > > As the semantic differ from the usual treatment of the PACKAGES > arguments of supermin --prepare, this could be managed by a new > option implying "do not search or install depencies for the given > packages". > > What do you think ? What you are suggesting covers just one of the requirements of supermin for the package manager. The others, which I wrote in a previous email, are: - query name, version, epoch (if existing), architecture of a package - get the last "change time" of the package manager - get the file list of a package (possibly with the information about which ones are "configuration files") - download a package What supermin needs seems not met by the too limited package management on slackware, I'm afraid. On the other hand, this does not imply you cannot use libguestfs: with a driver-less supermin, you can build libguestfs without an appliance (--disable-appliance), and use a "fixed appliance", i.e. an appliance built on a different system, pointing libguestfs to it. See also "LIBGUESTFS_PATH" in http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#environment-variables and you can find our Fedora-based appliances here: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ -- Pino Toscano