similar to: [PATCH 0/3] supermin: miscellaneous cleanups

Document what each module does, using *.mli files. Remove the --dtb option, it's obsolete. Rename modules according to their purpose. Rich.

--- src/utils.ml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ src/utils.mli | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/utils.ml b/src/utils.ml index 3e81c21..7ae24bd 100644 --- a/src/utils.ml +++ b/src/utils.ml @@ -204,3 +204,24 @@ let compare_architecture a1 a2 = exit 1 in compare (index_of_architecture a1) (index_of_architecture a2) + +(* Parse a size field, eg. "10G".

Hi, this work makes supermin use the rpm library instead of invoking rpm directly. This, together with a needed refactoring of the dependency resolution, should help in make supermin faster on rpm-based systems. Surely the patches will still need polishing, especially for behaviours of newly added stuff, but at least it's a good starting point. Noting that you need rpm-devel on most of rpm

* Richard W.M. Jones: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:27:07PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: >> --- >> src/kernel.ml | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- >> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/src/kernel.ml b/src/kernel.ml >> index ed5aea3..436b1b0 100644 >> --- a/src/kernel.ml >> +++ b/src/kernel.ml

Hi Rich But there is no src/kernel.ml file on my ubuntu powerpc to which the above patch is reffering. I have installed supermin as supermin_5.1.8-2_powerpc.deb debian package. Thanks On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 06:55:49PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > > supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel

--- src/kernel.ml | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/kernel.ml b/src/kernel.ml index ed5aea3..436b1b0 100644 --- a/src/kernel.ml +++ b/src/kernel.ml @@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ open Utils open Ext2fs open Fnmatch +let patt_of_cpu host_cpu = + let models = + match host_cpu with + | "mips" |

Hi Rich Kindly ignore my previos mail. I have downloaded the latest version of supermin supermin-5.1.8 and have compiled it for powerpc.Moreover there was no need to patch the src/ kernel.ml file as the changes were already implemented on the latest version. But still when i run libguestfs-test-tool on powerpc ubuntu,I get the below logs.. libguestfs-test-tool

Hi, to ease debugging issues with appliances (e.g. when used in libguestfs), using --include-packagelist will add a file containing the list of all the packages used. Thanks, Pino Toscano (3): ext2: add ext2fs_chmod and ext2fs_chown chroot: factor out file copy code Add --include-packagelist src/build.ml | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ src/chroot.ml | 29

Allow an alternate libc, such as dietlibc, to be used for the init binary in the supermin appliance. Rich.

The new run_shell helper is a copy of run_python, and will be used by upcoming changes. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> --- src/supermin_utils.ml | 9 +++++++++ src/supermin_utils.mli | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/supermin_utils.ml b/src/supermin_utils.ml index f98e09a..cb8a27e 100644 --- a/src/supermin_utils.ml +++ b/src/supermin_utils.ml

Simplier version of what is implemented in Common_utils in libguestfs, only adding the application prefix and handling the exit. --- src/build.ml | 20 +++++----------- src/dpkg.ml | 4 +--- src/kernel.ml | 27 ++++++++++------------ src/package_handler.ml | 7 +++--- src/pacman.ml | 6 ++--- src/prepare.ml | 12 ++++------ src/rpm.ml

This patch series fixes several problems in the way that supermin handles kernels. The most pressing problem is that supermin doesn't handle bogus vmlinuz files which aren't actual kernels. Along the way there is a lot of clean up. The patches look much better if you view them with ‘-w’. This series will require plenty of time to be tested in Fedora, especially on non-x86 arches.

v1 -> v2: - If we split out the init program into a separate init/ directory, that makes it much easier to build against an alternate libc. I tried to build against uClibc, but uClibc requires an entire build chain, which looked like it was going to be a massive ballache. Rich.

Joseph, Please try my modified versions of these patches. These are compile-tested on Fedora and they don't break any existing functionality, but I don't have either urpmi nor a statically-linked xz so I cannot fully test them. I have also fixed detection of zlib (2/3). Rich.

This is an attempt to make supermin check for the existing results of an output when checking whether the appliance must be rebuilt using --if-newer. At the moment it is implemented only for the build mode, and for its ext2 output format. Pino Toscano (4): build: factor ext2 filenames Tighten Unix_error check for missing outputdir Extend modes with list of outputs build: set

--- .gitignore | 6 +- .gitmodules | 3 - HACKING | 41 +++ Makefile.am | 6 +- README | 7 +- TODO | 61 +--- autobuild.sh | 65 ---- autogen.sh | 12 - configure.ac | 27

Move the handling of the SUPERMIN_* envvars, and the kernel copy/symlink out of find_kernel to build_kernel: this way find_kernel does only the search. Also, the modules path search is done in by find_kernel as well. This is mostly code motion, with no behaviour changes. --- src/kernel.ml | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 45

This two-part patch for supermin implements device trees (for ARM). The first patch introduces a more rational way to handle command line arguments in 'supermin-helper'. See the commit message for details. The old style is still supported for compatibility. The second patch adds an extra supermin-helper --dtb parameter specifying a wildcard. A device tree file which matches the

Hi, let's make supermin use /etc/os-release as primary source instead of the various release files in /etc; apparently distros (e.g. openSUSE) are starting removing them. Thanks, Pino Toscano (2): Add simple handling of /etc/os-release Use os-release to detect the distro src/Makefile.am | 3 +++ src/dpkg.ml | 3 ++- src/os_release.ml | 78

If the specified output directory ends with a slash, chop it then; leaving it in will create problems later, like creating the temporary directory inside the output directory (and not aside it), and trying to rename it to the directory containing it (which will fail indeed). --- src/supermin.ml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/supermin.ml b/src/supermin.ml index