Re: [Libguestfs] Unable to build appliance
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 05:09:34PM -0700, Sean McAfee wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:38:45AM -0700, Sean McAfee wrote:
> > Each version of febootstrap I've tried leads to a slightly different
> > explosion of dependencies, each with its own idiosyncracies to be
> > addressed.
>
> Let's keep this thread on the list, since it may help others in future.
>
> When you say dependencies of febootstrap, do you really mean of
> febootstrap itself, or of the package list that libguestfs is trying
> to download and install? If the latter, you can reduce that by
> removing things from appliance/packagelist.in in the libguestfs
> sources.
>
>
It's the former. I can't build febootstrap until I install all of its
transitive dependencies (about a dozen of them), most of which result from
its direct dependence on yum.
febootstrap 3.x shouldn't depend on yum. On Ubuntu it uses dpkg etc.
Old libguestfs (<= 1.7) didn't use febootstrap. On Ubuntu it used
debirf and debootstrap, which had their own collection of problems.
Anyway, I think you should use the latest stuff, otherwise it's hard
to help.
Rich.
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