[First attempt to send this using git send-email didn't work because of SMTP routing problems] Hilko, This is my experimental patch to remove update-guestfs-appliance from Debian. With this patch, libguestfs builds with a supermin [version 5] appliance in /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d: $ ll -h /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/ total 884K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94K Mar 15 12:18 base.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 767K Mar 15 12:18 daemon.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 263 Mar 15 12:18 excludefiles -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Mar 15 12:18 hostfiles -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K Mar 15 12:18 init.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 462 Mar 15 12:18 packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543 Mar 15 12:18 udev-rules.tar.gz libguestfs-test-tool works after installation. I tried a few other things, but it has not been comprehensively tested. Note that if you previously had libguestfs installed, and you ran update-guestfs-appliance, it will have created a cpio file called 'base.img' in /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/. This file breaks supermin unless it is removed. I attempted to modify postinst to remove it, but that didn't work for some reason. 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