Libguestfs - Jul 2009 - fedoostrap or deboostrap requirement

Hi,

While trying to ./configure libguestfs on gentoo fails since it requires
feboostrap or deboostrap
Can this be made optional and not as necessary requirement, since there
are still many useful uses for libguestfs
besides bootstrapping, which can be used on distros like gentoo.

 Thanks
 Alex

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:57:01PM +0300, Piavlo wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> While trying to ./configure libguestfs on gentoo fails since it requires
> feboostrap or deboostrap
> Can this be made optional and not as necessary requirement, since there
> are still many useful uses for libguestfs
> besides bootstrapping, which can be used on distros like gentoo.
You probably want to read this:

  http://www.libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#state_machine_and_low_level_event_api

and this:

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-May/msg00003.html

The choices are:

(1) Port febootstrap + yum to Gentoo (not so hard).

(2) Change libguestfs to use portage.  (This was already done for the
Debian/debootstrap combo).

(3) Use the binary blobs from another machine, but note that we no
longer build full appliances in the Fedora RPMs.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391

Rich.

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