Libguestfs - Apr 2017 - IRC question: squashfs

>From josv on IRC:
> Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the
> fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in this
> installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available squashfs
> returns "error: squashfs: group not available").  What would be
the
> recommended way to have the squashfs feature available?
$ guestfish -a /dev/null run : supported
...
        squashfs no
...

$ rpm -q squashfs-tools
squashfs-tools-4.3-12.fc24.x86_64

I think actually this is a bug.  I'll take a look into it tomorrow.

Rich.

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On Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:26:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> 
> >From josv on IRC:
> 
> > Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the
> > fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in this
> > installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available squashfs
> > returns "error: squashfs: group not available").  What would
be the
> > recommended way to have the squashfs feature available?
> 
> $ guestfish -a /dev/null run : supported
> ...
>         squashfs no
> ...
> 
> $ rpm -q squashfs-tools
> squashfs-tools-4.3-12.fc24.x86_64
> 
> I think actually this is a bug.  I'll take a look into it tomorrow.
It looks like the Fedora packaging does not have squashfs-tools as
Build-Require -- adding it should do the job.

Speaking of Fedora: the libosinfo dependency can be changed to
osinfo-db in f25+, as we just need the osinfo data.

Thanks,
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:15:53AM +0200, Pino Toscano
wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:26:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > >From josv on IRC:
> > 
> > > Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the
> > > fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in
this
> > > installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available
squashfs
> > > returns "error: squashfs: group not available").  What
would be the
> > > recommended way to have the squashfs feature available?
> > 
> > $ guestfish -a /dev/null run : supported
> > ...
> >         squashfs no
> > ...
> > 
> > $ rpm -q squashfs-tools
> > squashfs-tools-4.3-12.fc24.x86_64
> > 
> > I think actually this is a bug.  I'll take a look into it
tomorrow.
> 
> It looks like the Fedora packaging does not have squashfs-tools as
> Build-Require -- adding it should do the job.
Ah yes, that's right.  Because it's not available at build time it
doesn't get added to /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/packages.  So even
if you later install it at runtime, it is not included.

I will fix this and the osinfo thing in the next build.

Thanks,

Rich.
> Speaking of Fedora: the libosinfo dependency can be changed to
> osinfo-db in f25+, as we just need the osinfo data.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Pino Toscano

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