Libguestfs - Mar 2014 - FYI: Fwd: [Bug 1157665] Re: update-guestfs-appliance & ligbuestfs-test-tool should be included in libguestfs0

Hi Hilko,

I don't know if you pay attention to or even care about Ubuntu bugs.

I subscribe to ones that involve libguestfs, and one here [see below]
involves libguestfs packaging in Debian/Ubuntu.

Unfortunately Ubuntu LTS has settled on a really old version of
libguestfs too ...

Rich.

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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:12:17 -0000
From: Maarten Fonville <1157665@bugs.launchpad.net>
To: rjones@redhat.com
Subject: [Bug 1157665] Re: update-guestfs-appliance & ligbuestfs-test-tool
	should be included in libguestfs0

** Changed in: libguestfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  update-guestfs-appliance & ligbuestfs-test-tool  should be included in
  libguestfs0

Status in “libguestfs” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Description:    Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:        12.10

  libguestfs0: 1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1

  In Ubuntu 12.10 the appliance creation script (update-guestfs-
  appliance) and the libguestfs-test-tool are under libguestfs-tools.

  I'm not sure this is a right choice. I think they should be under
  libguestfs0 as they are in Debian. All the applications that use the
  library should work out of the box when you install them using "apt-
  get install".  For example guestmount has libguestfs0 as a dependency
  but not liguestfs-tools. If you do:

  apt-get install guestmount

  you end up installing a program that does not work:

  $ guestmount -a debian.raw -m /dev/sda1 --ro /mnt
  libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed  or
old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path:  /usr/lib/guestfs)

  And the user needs to manually fix this by either installing
  libguestfs-tools or downloading a binary appliance.

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On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 06:58:19PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> Hi Hilko,
> 
> I don't know if you pay attention to or even care about Ubuntu bugs.
> 
> I subscribe to ones that involve libguestfs, and one here [see below]
> involves libguestfs packaging in Debian/Ubuntu.
Looking into this further, it looks like this is not a bug on Debian,
since on Debian the scripts are already in libguestfs0.

Ignore me :-)

Rich.

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