Libguestfs - Aug 2013 - Recent changes in supermin/libguestfs that may affect packagers

All in libguestfs >= 1.23.19.

- The location of the javadoc has moved from:
/usr/share/javadoc/libguestfs-java-$version to:
/usr/share/javadoc/libguestfs.

- Compressed cpio images are used, if possible.  You will see two *.gz
files appearing in appliance/supermin.d during the build and copied to
/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d:

$ ls -lh appliance/supermin.d/
total 1.3M
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 324K Aug 28 22:45 base.img.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 744K Aug 28 22:47 daemon.img.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 170K Aug 28 22:45 hostfiles
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 5.0K Aug 28 22:40 init.img
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 2.0K Aug 28 22:40 udev-rules.img

This saves a considerable amount of space (~5.9 MB -> ~1.3 MB).

Compressed cpio images requires supermin >= 4.1.4.  Earlier versions
of supermin will continue to work.  Note that you must not build
libguestfs with supermin >= 4.1.4 and then try to use libguestfs with
supermin-helper < 4.1.4.  That won't work.

Rich.

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