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I've also uploaded libguestfs to the URL above. Now this is a much more tricky package than febootstrap. libguestfs home page: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ It's a C library, but the source contains bindings to many different programming languages: OCaml, Python, Perl, Java, Haskell and Ruby. So to package it would require coordination with all of those Debian packaging groups. For the moment, I've disabled the language bindings, so this package just builds the C library and the shell tool. Surprisingly though, that is _not_ the tricky bit ... This is the tricky bit: This package also uses febootstrap to build a Fedora appliance[0], which is then embedded in the resulting binary[1]. The Fedora appliance is of course built out of Fedora RPMs, and in the default configuration these get downloaded from a Fedora yum repository[2]. When we build this package in Fedora, we get the RPMs 'for free' as it were from the existing buildroot. We looked at other approaches to porting to Debian, including changing the scripts to use debootstrap[3]. The way we did it represented the simplest approach to just getting it working on Debian. I think if we wanted to add debootstrap support, we'd need someone interested on the Debian side to maintain that. So there we go - did I say it was a tricky package? Your comments welcomed. Rich. [0] For the definition of 'appliance' see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance [1] In case you are wondering, this page explains the architecture: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/guestfs.3.html#state_machine_and_low_level_event_api [2] Fedora has policies which are as strong as Debian, so these do represent Free software, at least as compliant as the DFSG, although I'm sure there are corner cases such as differences in policy on inclusion/exclusion of kernel firmware. [3] Febootstrap and debootstrap are architecturally fairly similar to each other. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
