[Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: febootstrap in Debian

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:58:43PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> [..snip..] 
> > > In Fedora we build module-init-tools from source and we don't do
> > > anything special[1] to get insmod.static, so I'm not sure why it
> > > doesn't exist on Debian too.
> > 
> > It just didn't get built and installed. I've filed a bug so we can at
> > least update febootstrap in Debian to 3.0. (Closes: #627353)
> 
> Is klibc's insmod an alternative? It's in the klibc-utils package:
> 	http://packages.debian.org/sid/ia64/klibc-utils/filelist

Not the ia64/Itanic package :-)

Yes, this looks perfect.  In fact at 1608 bytes [sic] this is pretty
amazing.  I checked, and the binary does appear to work.

# ls -l /usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1608 May 18 14:27 /usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod
# ldd /usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod 
  not a dynamic executable
# file /usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod 
/usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Rich.

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