Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:11:51PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:09:50PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
Hi all
Yes, of course....but since it is mentioned that febootstrap is based on debootstrap, is there a technical reason for not just supporting debootstrap alternatively. I haven't got enough background regarding debootstrap/febootstrap and libguestfs to make a judgement about this though.
I summarised the options here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-May/msg00003.html
For the Debian package I went with option (1), since Debian already has yum and rpm packaged.
Thanks, I guess in an ideal world the best solution would be to have a configure option like
--image=[febootstrap|debootstrap|fixed]
or so, and then the package would be setup to use febootstrap on redhat-based systems, debootstrap on debian-based system and fixed to use a pre-build image.
As you say, it won't be too difficult, but clearly the patch doesn't write itself ...
But such a patch to libguestfs would be accepted in your opinion?
But to require any distribution to install yum/rpm just for this library seems a bit intrusive to me. Requiring a specific distro packaging system for a package seems a bit distribution dependant to me.
It's not like that. Just because Debian ship yum doesn't mean that anyone has to abandon apt. yum under Debian is only used where someone wants to install an RPM-based distro from a Debian host, eg. as a chroot, or in a virtual machine, or (as in this case) to build an appliance.
Sorry, I didn't mean that, it was clear to me that yum/rpm wouldn't replace apt/dpkg, it's just that I think the requirement of febootsrap / yum on a debian distribution is a bit problematic.
Rich.