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@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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora