On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:18:21PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: OK, hope this works ... [1/6] This adds the 5 patches which I posted upstream some time ago (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-December/thread.html#00039). They are rebased to libguestfs 1.0.84, but otherwise unchanged. I use quilt here to manage the patches, but actually quilt is a bit of a pain because it doesn't cooperate well with git. I wonder if it is better to store these as git commits? In any case, they need to be reworked and go upstream at some point. [2/6] Change the mirror and repo for Ubuntu. [3/6] Add a changelog entry. (Not sure if this is necessary or the 'proper' way to do this). [4/6] 'make check' fails. In libguestfs >= 1.0.85 we will have a 'make quickcheck' rule, but in the meantime just run libguestfs-test-tool as a quick test that the package is mostly working. [5/6] For some reason I don't understand, Ubuntu's Python site-packages are stored in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, even though Python _2.6_ is installed. This breaks the configure script, so we have to patch configure.ac _and_ configure. It's just a single line change to configure.ac, but the (generated) configure change is much larger. [6/6] This patch contains two separate, mostly unrelated changes: (a) Ubuntu doesn't have libsys-virt-perl. Drop it as a dependency. (b) Also install virt-inspector, virt-df and virt-cat (might be applicable to the Debian branch too?) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html