Re: [Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:19:56AM -0700, David Konerding wrote: > Are you sure this should work? I see that libc6 makes it into packagelist, > and the febootstrap invocation includes libc6, but it never downloads libc6. > > I did a few verification steps: > 1) aptitude download libc6 works > 2) extracting the deb works > > so it seems like there is some step between listing a package in > packagelist, and febootstrap actually invoking the aptitutde download > command for the package. I've skimmed the febootstrap code, it doesn't seem > like it would actively filter anything not in the exclude list (which I > verified doesn't list libc6). Actually you're right, this isn't direct. It will pass libc6 as an argument to apt-cache depends [...], which then presumably is ignoring it or not printing it in the output for whatever reason. There's not an especially easy way to do this without modifying febootstrap sources: http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap_debian.ml;... Then recompiling febootstrap and adding /path/to/febootstrap and /path/to/febootstrap/helper to $PATH.

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