Libguestfs - Jul 2013 - Re: Problem with supermin & zypper

Hi,

During compilation of guestfs I get the following error:

*supermin -v -o supermin.d --names augeas-libs btrfs-progs cryptsetup
cryptsetup-luks e2fsprogs e4fsprogs genisoimage gfs-utils gfs2-utils grub
hfsplus-tools hivex iproute iputils kernel libcap libldm MAKEDEV
nilfs-utils ntfsprogs ntfs-3g openssh-clients pcre reiserfs-utils
libselinux syslinux-extlinux systemd vim-minimal xz yajl zfs-fuse acl attr
bash binutils bzip2 coreutils cpio diffutils dosfstools file findutils gawk
gdisk grep gzip jfsutils kmod less libxml2 lsof lsscsi lvm2 lzop mdadm
module-init-tools parted procps procps-ng psmisc rsync scrub sed strace
syslinux tar udev util-linux util-linux-ng xfsprogs zerofree --exclude
^perl --exclude ^python --exclude ^plymouth --exclude ^linux-firmware
--exclude ^kbd-misc --exclude ^kernel --exclude ^fedora-logos --exclude
^redhat-logos --exclude ^dracut
supermin 4.1.1
supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or distro.

If this is a new Linux distro, or not Linux, or a Linux distro that uses
an unusual packaging format then you may need to port supermin.  If
you are expecting that supermin should work on this system or distro
then it may be that the package detection code is not working.
make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 1*

Now, I installed supermin from git. During configuration it discovered
zypper:

*checking for zypper... zypper
checking for yum... no
checking for rpm... rpm
checking for yumdownloader... no
checking for aptitude... no
checking for apt-cache... apt-cache
checking for dpkg... no
checking if apt-cache depends --recurse is broken... yes
checking for pacman... no*

I have the following file:

*> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2*

What am I missing here ?
Why do I get this error ?

Thanks,

Or
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:50:01 +0300, Or Goshen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During compilation of guestfs I get the following error:
> supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or distro.
> 
> If this is a new Linux distro, or not Linux, or a Linux distro that uses
> an unusual packaging format then you may need to port supermin.  If
> you are expecting that supermin should work on this system or distro
> then it may be that the package detection code is not working.
> make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 1*
> 
> Now, I installed supermin from git. During configuration it discovered
> zypper:
> 
> *checking for zypper... zypper
> checking for yum... no
> checking for rpm... rpm
> checking for yumdownloader... no
> checking for aptitude... no
> checking for apt-cache... apt-cache
> checking for dpkg... no
> checking if apt-cache depends --recurse is broken... yes
> checking for pacman... no*
The zypper plugin requires the inifiles OCaml library;
make sure configure detects that.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:50:01AM +0300, Or Goshen
wrote:
> Now, I installed supermin from git. During configuration it discovered
> zypper:
> 
> *checking for zypper... zypper
> checking for yum... no
> checking for rpm... rpm
> checking for yumdownloader... no
> checking for aptitude... no
> checking for apt-cache... apt-cache
> checking for dpkg... no
> checking if apt-cache depends --recurse is broken... yes
> checking for pacman... no*
> 
> I have the following file:
> 
> *> cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 11
> PATCHLEVEL = 2*
> 
> What am I missing here ?
> Why do I get this error ?
First, let's see if your copy of supermin works at all.

Try:

  /path/to/your/supermin -v --names bash

Does that work?  If not, what's the precise error message?

Secondly, is libguestfs using your compiled-from-git supermin or some
other supermin that you happen to have installed?

Thirdly, take a look at the zypper module in supermin sources
(supermin/src/supermin_zypp_rpm.ml) and examine how OS detection
works.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org

On Thu, Jul 11, Or Goshen wrote:
> What am I missing here ?
> Why do I get this error ?
Only the master branch in supermin.git has some changes to support
zypper. libguestfs.git has almost no support yet to make use of this new
zypper code, for example the list of package names can not be used as
is.

The just release SLES11 SP3 includes libguestfs, if you want something
that has received some testing.


Olaf

I was missing inifiles .. how supermin works, but returns an error:

*> supermin -v --names
bash
supermin 4.1.1
selected package handler: zypp-rpm
+ unset LANG LC_COLLATE
+ tmpdir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp
+ cache_dir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/cache-dir
+
pkg_cache_dir=/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/pkg_cache_dir
+ zypper --verbose --verbose --root
/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/root --reposd-dir
/etc/zypp/repos.d --cache-dir
/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/cache-dir --pkg-cache-dir
/tmp/supermin547e0fe6bded584f8986e84e3cda32ec.tmp/pkg_cache_dir
--gpg-auto-import-keys --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive install
--auto-agree-with-licenses --download-only bash
Verbosity: 2
Entering non-interactive mode.
Entering 'no-gpg-checks' mode.
Warning: Turning on '--gpg-auto-import-keys'. New repository signing
keys
will be automatically imported!
Non-option program arguments: 'bash'
Initializing Target
Failed to mount
[server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on
/var/tmp/AP_0x8DLPyL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that)

Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' is
out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Loading repository data...
Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234'
data...
Checking whether to refresh metadata for
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234
Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234'
metadata [\]
Failed to mount
[server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on
/var/tmp/AP_0x40mPGL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that)

Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Retrieving repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234'
metadata [error]
Repository 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' is
invalid.
[|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s)
History:
 - Failed to mount
[server]:/vol/vol2/sles_images/repository/suse/SLES11/SP2/ia32e on
/var/tmp/AP_0x40mPGL: Mounting media failed (mount: only root can do that)

 - Can't provide /media.1/media

Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a
valid repository.
Problem loading data from 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2
11.2.2-1.234'
Resolvables from 'SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP2 11.2.2-1.234' not
loaded because of error.
Reading installed packages...
Force resolution: No
'bash' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'bash' found.

real    0m0.091s
user    0m0.052s
sys     0m0.016s
supermin: external shell program failed, see earlier error messages
*


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:50:01AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote:
> > Now, I installed supermin from git. During configuration it discovered
> > zypper:
> >
> > *checking for zypper... zypper
> > checking for yum... no
> > checking for rpm... rpm
> > checking for yumdownloader... no
> > checking for aptitude... no
> > checking for apt-cache... apt-cache
> > checking for dpkg... no
> > checking if apt-cache depends --recurse is broken... yes
> > checking for pacman... no*
> >
> > I have the following file:
> >
> > *> cat /etc/SuSE-release
> > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
> > VERSION = 11
> > PATCHLEVEL = 2*
> >
> > What am I missing here ?
> > Why do I get this error ?
>
> First, let's see if your copy of supermin works at all.
>
> Try:
>
>   /path/to/your/supermin -v --names bash
>
> Does that work?  If not, what's the precise error message?
>
> Secondly, is libguestfs using your compiled-from-git supermin or some
> other supermin that you happen to have installed?
>
> Thirdly, take a look at the zypper module in supermin sources
> (supermin/src/supermin_zypp_rpm.ml) and examine how OS detection
> works.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
> bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org
>


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