Bug 1195204

Summary:	`virt-builder` should create $HOME/.cache directory if it already doesn't exist
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Pino Toscano <ptoscano>
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Description Kashyap Chamarthy 2015-02-23 11:14:20 UTC

Description of problem:

If $HOME/.cache directory does not exist, `virt-builder` will disable caching -- it fails to create $HOME/.cache/virt-builder directory as it assumes the parent directory $HOME/.cache/ already exists.

It is desirable to have `virt-builder` to create the $HOME/.cache (if it already doesn't exist) so that the downloaded operating system templates can be cached. 

So, it should do something like:

  mkdir -p $HOME/.cache/virt-builder
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  libguestfs-1.29.26-1.fc23

How reproducible: All the time

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-02-23 11:21:50 UTC

I have observed this too, especially for /root for some reason.

Comment 2 Kashyap Chamarthy 2015-02-24 09:23:14 UTC

Pino posted a patch upstream, that's also ACKed

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-February/msg00188.html

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2015-02-24 09:24:52 UTC

Fixed with
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/652af7a33ac769b063cadddc41786dc69bbe2792
which is libguestfs >= 1.29.27.