Libguestfs - Oct 2015 - libguestfs-winsupport

Hello! I have a mess with libguestfs-winsupport package.

I my repo (centos-7.1-based distro) I have ntfs-3g-2015-3.14 in epel 
(and not versions anywhere else).
I got libguestfs-winsupport-7.1.X but it contains ntfs-3g-2014* and 
conflicts with epel ntfs-3g (although if I run rpm -ivh --force 
libguestfs-winsupport, the appliance uses v2015).

I found on ~rjones/ libguestfs-winsupport-7.2.1 (without ntfs-3g inside, 
as I understood) and it causes no conflicts at first glance. It it ready 
for production, can I use it in my 7.1-based distro with ntfs-3g-2015 
from epel?

-- 
Your sincerely,
Maxim Perevedentsev

I forgot:
My repo has libguestfs-1.28.1-1.18. But for 1.31.X everything seems to 
work without libguestfs-winsupport.

Second part of question is:
Will libguestfs-winsupport be needed for v1.30? 1.32?

And third:
We came to
 > yum install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfs-3g-devel
 > echo 'libguestfs-winsupport' > 
/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-winsupport
But this does not work somehow.

Can we make libguestfs-1.28 work with ntfs without conflicts with 
existing ntfs-3g and, desirably, without copying ntfs-3g (as, ASAIK, in 
winsupport-7.2.1)?


On 10/27/2015 02:04 PM, Maxim Perevedentsev wrote:
> Hello! I have a mess with libguestfs-winsupport package.
>
> I my repo (centos-7.1-based distro) I have ntfs-3g-2015-3.14 in epel 
> (and not versions anywhere else).
> I got libguestfs-winsupport-7.1.X but it contains ntfs-3g-2014* and 
> conflicts with epel ntfs-3g (although if I run rpm -ivh --force 
> libguestfs-winsupport, the appliance uses v2015).
>
> I found on ~rjones/ libguestfs-winsupport-7.2.1 (without ntfs-3g 
> inside, as I understood) and it causes no conflicts at first glance. 
> It it ready for production, can I use it in my 7.1-based distro with 
> ntfs-3g-2015 from epel?
>
-- 
Your sincerely,
Maxim Perevedentsev

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 02:04:17PM +0300, Maxim Perevedentsev
wrote:
> Hello! I have a mess with libguestfs-winsupport package.
> 
> I my repo (centos-7.1-based distro) I have ntfs-3g-2015-3.14 in epel
> (and not versions anywhere else).
> I got libguestfs-winsupport-7.1.X but it contains ntfs-3g-2014* and
> conflicts with epel ntfs-3g (although if I run rpm -ivh --force
> libguestfs-winsupport, the appliance uses v2015).
This is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190501

Please don't force install things.
> I found on ~rjones/ libguestfs-winsupport-7.2.1 (without ntfs-3g
> inside, as I understood) and it causes no conflicts at first glance.
> It it ready for production, can I use it in my 7.1-based distro with
> ntfs-3g-2015 from epel?
Yes.  Also RHEL 7.2 / CentOS 7.2 will ship with the new version of
libguestfs-winsupport.

Rich.

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 02:39:58PM +0300, Maxim Perevedentsev
wrote:
> I forgot:
> My repo has libguestfs-1.28.1-1.18. But for 1.31.X everything seems
> to work without libguestfs-winsupport.
Not sure how that works.  You'll need libguestfs-winsupport to access
Windows guests, and that will be the case in RHEL 7.2 upwards.
> Second part of question is:
> Will libguestfs-winsupport be needed for v1.30? 1.32?
On RHEL/CentOS, yes.
> And third:
> We came to
> > yum install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfs-3g-devel
> > echo 'libguestfs-winsupport' >
> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-winsupport
> But this does not work somehow.
The echo command is saying "add libguestfs-winsupport to the
appliance", but supermin ignores packages which are not installed, so
if libguestfs-winsupport isn't installed that command will be ignored.
Whether or not you installed ntfs-3g on the host is irrelevant.

Anyway, I suggest installing libguestfs-winsupport-7.2 (although if
you have previously force-installed packages or overwritten random
distro files then all bets are off).
> Can we make libguestfs-1.28 work with ntfs without conflicts with
> existing ntfs-3g and, desirably, without copying ntfs-3g (as, ASAIK,
> in winsupport-7.2.1)?
This might work, but I didn't test it:

  echo ntfs-3g > /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/local-ntfs-3g

Rich.

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