[fedora-virt] libguestfs experimental build with supermin appliance

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 16:06:08 UTC 2009


This is an experimental rebuild of libguestfs with the supermin
appliance:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1418138

Make sure you install libguestfs >= 1.0.48-2.  Earlier versions were
broken in various different ways.

I've tested it locally on i586 & x86-64 and it seems to work for me.

You'll get warning messages like this:

  ><fs> alloc /tmp/test.img 10M
  ><fs> run
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade.i686: Cannot open: Permission denied
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/groupadd: Cannot open: Permission denied
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/groupdel: Cannot open: Permission denied
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/groupmems: Cannot open: Permission denied
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/groupmod: Cannot open: Permission denied
  cpio: ./usr/sbin/tzdata-update: Cannot open: Permission denied
  [etc.]

This is a known problem (it tries to pull some files from the host
filesystem which are not readable) and shouldn't affect any operations
and it still passes the test suite even without those programs.

Rich.

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