On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:10:19AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.26, a library and set of tools > > > for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. This release > > > took more than 6 months of work by a considerable number of people, > > > and has many new features (see release notes below). > > > > > > You can get libguestfs 1.26 here: > > > > > > Main website: http://libguestfs.org/ > > > > > > Source: http://libguestfs.org/download/1.26-stable/ > > > You will also need latest supermin from here: > > > http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/ > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > Is there any particular reason that you think this would not run on > FreeBSD? > > Any Linux-isms that are just not available on FreeBSD? > > There are a few. However I'm quite happy to accept patches to make it > work / work better on FreeBSD. > > > I noticed this announcement [1] awhile ago, that mentioned febootstrap > as a > > requirement, > > however we don't have this for FreeBSD. However, we do have debootstrap > > [2]. Debian is listed > > in the announcement [1], so thought that it could work with debootstrap, > > but wanted inquire about > > any gotchas or experiences before diving in and seeing for myself. > > > > [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00098.html > > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap > > Unfortunately debootstrap is not going to help. > > The package that libguestfs depends on is 'supermin': > > http://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html > > Supermin makes certain assumptions about package managers that may or > may not apply to FreeBSD ports/packages. For example: > > - that a package manager (similar to rpm/dpkg/etc) exists > > - that it packages pre-compiled binaries (not sources) > > - that you can list out the files belonging to a package > > - that there are dependency relationships between packages > > - that all files on the filesystem are part of a package (except > user-generated files) > > There are various ways to make libguestfs work without supermin, see > the FAQ here: > > > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-without-supermin > > although depending on a Fedora-built appliance may not be very > satisfying. > > You could build a fixed FreeBSD-based appliance, but distributing it > wouldn't be very nice, and getting security updates even less so. > Supermin solves these kinds of problems. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW > > Is there a way to get it to support 'pkg' the packaging utility for FreeBSD? It supports everything you noted above, will full API support. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/ I'll look at the link you provided. Thanks! -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer j...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power to Serve
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