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Use 'supermin' and 'supermin-helper' in preference to febootstrap.

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Febootstrap has been renamed upstream to 'supermin':
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-February/msg00004.html

This commit changes libguestfs so it can use either program to build
the supermin appliance.
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Richard W.M. Jones
2013-02-05 15:31:05 +00:00
parent 72dd398679
commit a0a4ee5245
15 changed files with 121 additions and 84 deletions
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examples/guestfs-faq.pod
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@@ -345,17 +345,17 @@ You'll have to compile from source, and port it.
=head2 How can I compile and install libguestfs from source?
If your Linux distro has a working port of febootstrap (that is,
If your Linux distro has a working port of supermin (that is,
Fedora, S<Red Hat Enterprise Linux E<ge> 6.3>, Debian, Ubuntu and ArchLinux)
then you should just be able to compile from source in the usual way.
Download the latest tarball from L<http://libguestfs.org/download>,
unpack it, and start by reading the README file.
If you I<don't> have febootstrap, you will need to use the "fixed
If you I<don't> have supermin, you will need to use the "fixed
appliance method". See:
L<http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/>
Patches to port febootstrap to more Linux distros are welcome.
Patches to port supermin to more Linux distros are welcome.
=head2 Why do I get an error when I try to rebuild from the source
RPMs supplied by Red Hat / Fedora?

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examples/guestfs-performance.pod
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@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ set C<$TMPDIR> or C<$LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR> in which case it will be
under that temporary directory.
For more information about how the appliance is constructed, see
L<febootstrap(8)/SUPERMIN APPLIANCES>.
L<supermin(8)/SUPERMIN APPLIANCES>.
Every time libguestfs runs it will check that no host files used by
the appliance have changed. If any have, then the appliance is
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ times.
=item 2.
By default libguestfs (or rather, L<febootstrap-supermin-helper(8)>)
By default libguestfs (or rather, L<supermin-helper(8)>)
searches over the root filesystem to find out if any host files have
changed and if it needs to rebuild the appliance. If these files are
not cached and the root filesystem is on an HDD, then this generates
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ timings:
$ annotate-output +'%T.%N' guestfish -a /dev/null run -v
22:17:53.215784625 I: Started guestfish -a /dev/null run -v
22:17:53.240335409 E: libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d' x86_64
22:17:53.240335409 E: libguestfs: [00000ms] supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d' x86_64
22:17:53.266857866 E: supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
22:17:53.272704072 E: supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
22:17:53.276528651 E: checking modpath /lib/modules/3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64.debug is a directory
@@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ bit.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<febootstrap(8)>,
L<febootstrap-supermin-helper(8)>,
L<supermin(8)>,
L<supermin-helper(8)>,
L<guestfish(1)>,
L<guestfs(3)>,
L<guestfs-examples(3)>,