Libguestfs - May 2015 - Re: supermin in Fedora Rawhide switched (again) to using dnf instead of yum

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy
wrote:
> I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and somehow
> it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide detects it).
> Exact error:
> 
>     supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or
>     distro.
> 
> which is coming from: supermin/src/package_handler.ml.
> 
> Test
> ----
> 
> Build `supermin` from source:
> 
>     $ git clone https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin.git
>     $ ./bootstrap
>     $ ./autogen.sh
>     $ ./configure 
I'm guessing that you don't have one of 'rpm-devel',
'yum-utils' or
'dnf' installed.  What is the output from ./configure?

Rich.

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and
somehow
> > it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide detects
it).
> > Exact error:
> > 
> >     supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or
> >     distro.
> > 
> > which is coming from: supermin/src/package_handler.ml.
> > 
> > Test
> > ----
> > 
> > Build `supermin` from source:
> > 
> >     $ git clone https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin.git
> >     $ ./bootstrap
> >     $ ./autogen.sh
> >     $ ./configure 
> 
> I'm guessing that you don't have one of 'rpm-devel', 
I was missing this. Retrying with it.
> 'yum-utils' or 'dnf' installed.
I did have these, though:

    yum-utils-1.1.31-505.fc22.noarch
    dnf-1.0.0-1.fc22.noarch
    rpm-4.12.0.1-9.fc22.x86_64
> What is the output from ./configure?
    https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/temp/supermin-config.log
>From here, it complains that the 'rpm' package is not found in in
the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH:

    [. . .]
    configure:15882: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "rpm"
    Package rpm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `rpm.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'rpm' found
    configure:15885: $? = 1
    configure:15899: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "rpm"
    Package rpm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `rpm.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'rpm' found
    [. . .]

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/kashyap

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:59:19AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy
wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > > I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and
somehow
> > > it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide
detects it).
> > > Exact error:
> > > 
> > >     supermin: could not detect package manager used by this
system or
> > >     distro.
> > > 
> > > which is coming from: supermin/src/package_handler.ml.
> > > 
> > > Test
> > > ----
> > > 
> > > Build `supermin` from source:
> > > 
> > >     $ git clone https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin.git
> > >     $ ./bootstrap
> > >     $ ./autogen.sh
> > >     $ ./configure 
> > 
> > I'm guessing that you don't have one of 'rpm-devel', 
> 
> I was missing this. Retrying with it.
Yep -- 'rpm-devel' and  'zlib-static' (which was not pulled in
by `dnf
builddep supermin`, though) package did it (thanks Pino):

Build `supermin:

    $ dnf install xz-static
    $ sudo dnf install rpm-devel -y
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make check
    [. . .]
    # TOTAL: 8
    # PASS:  8
    [. . .]

Check for rpm driver:

    $ ../src/supermin --list-drivers | grep fedora
    fedora/rpm      detected

Prepare and build the appliance using the existing script from source
tree:

    $ ./build-basic-vm.sh
    $ cd basic-full-appliance/

Boot it:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -kernel kernel \
       -initrd initrd  -serial mon:stdio \
       -append 'console=ttyS0,115200,selinux=0' \
       -drive file=root,format=raw,if=virtio \
       -nographic -nodefconfig -nodefaults
    [. . .]
    bash-4.3#   


Thanks.

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/kashyap