On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:42:37AM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: The error is as it says: according to febootstrap, two packages (glibc and ntfs-3g) both list /lib, but list it as a directory and a regular file. This is an irreconcilable problem as far as febootstrap is concerned. There are several possibilities: (a) It really is a packaging problem with ArchLinux, nothing to do with febootstrap. (b) febootstrap's pacman support is having some trouble reading the packages, so it thinks /lib has different types, but really it doesn't. (c) Pacman normally resolves this in some way, and febootstrap should do the same thing. Running the febootstrap command with -v may 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

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:19:54AM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: So it looks like this /lib is a directory. [...] And this one is a directory too. febootstrap should be able to combine these: https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap/blob/master/src/febootstrap.ml#... But for some reason that's not happening. Probably the pacman plugin isn't getting the type of one of the files correctly. You'll have to enable debugging and perhaps add more debug statements into febootstrap_pacman.ml, while running: ./src/febootstrap --names glibc ntfs-3g until you can see what's going wrong. 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://libguestfs.org

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:51:14PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: So this is (arguably) a bug in febootstrap, although it might be easier to fix it by removing the empty /lib directory from the ntfs-3g package. [...] The code in general is designed to deal with the case where multiple files with the same path exist in multiple packages. This is a very common case in just about all packaging systems; most likely pacman has some code in it to deal with this case too. The code should combine certain types of configuration files, directories with the same path, and so on. What we would need to do is to modify this test so it can handle the case of a directory and a symbolic link to a directory. There's unfortunately no simple, one line fix for this, but it could be fixed with a larger patch. I think this is going to be the best way to fix this. If ntfs-3g isn't using the empty directory for anything, it doesn't seem to make much sense having it in the package. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v