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Bug 909573

Summary: patch libguestfs to use 'supermin' instead of 'febootstrap' in RHEL 7
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: bfan, leiwang, wshi
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: 1:libguestfs-1.20.2-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 909572 Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:06:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 909572    
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2013-02-09 14:10:56 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #909572 +++

Description of problem:

Last week I renamed the upstream project 'supermin'[1], and
submitted a new package for Fedora 19.  We should probably
also rename the RHEL 7 package, although it's not the end of
the world if we don't do that.  This will also require a small
change to libguestfs[2].

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-February/msg00004.html
[2] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/a0a4ee5245afdb7961d39b243439b902229dd599

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

supermin 4.1.1

--- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2013-02-09 09:09:52 EST ---

Should the component be "distribution"?
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-02-11 10:51:20 UTC 
Blocked waiting for supermin to appear in RHEL 7.0 buildroot.
Comment 3 Wei Shi 2013-02-27 07:07:47 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Blocked waiting for supermin to appear in RHEL 7.0 buildroot.

Appeared in RHEL-7.0-20130226.0, test passed.
PS: seabios needs to install manually because it is not in the tree and even not a dependency for our packages.

# libguestfs-test-tool 
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     * When reporting bugs, include the COMPLETE, UNEDITED
     * output below in your bug report.
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PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
SELinux: Enforcing
library version: 1.20.2rhel=7,release=1.el7,libvirt
guestfs_get_append: (null)
guestfs_get_attach_method: libvirt
...
...
...
supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
checking modpath /lib/modules/3.8.0-0.37.el7.x86_64 is a directory
picked vmlinuz-3.8.0-0.37.el7.x86_64 because modpath /lib/modules/3.8.0-0.37.el7.x86_64 exists
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00005ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00008ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00416ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00422ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.img
supermin helper [00426ms] adding kernel modules
supermin helper [00519ms] finished creating appliance
libguestfs: checksum of existing appliance: 043ac9f2d04304ad32ed600a7b98e51313b3fa926354ea394baec307c051757d
libguestfs: [00619ms] begin building supermin appliance
libguestfs: [00619ms] run supermin-helper
libguestfs: command: run: supermin-helper
libguestfs: command: run: \ --verbose
libguestfs: command: run: \ --copy-kernel
...
...
...
umount /sysroot
fsync /dev/sda
libguestfs: recv_from_daemon: 40 bytes: 20 00 f5 f5 | 00 00 00 04 | 00 00 01 1a | 00 00 00 01 | 00 12 34 04 | ...
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x1cc6320 (state 0)
libguestfs: command: run: rm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfs2ZCsfD
===== TEST FINISHED OK =====


# rpm -q libguestfs
libguestfs-1.20.2-1.el7.x86_64
# rpm -q supermin-helper
supermin-helper-4.1.1-1.el7.x86_64
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-02-27 10:27:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> PS: seabios needs to install manually because it is not in the tree and even
> not a dependency for our packages.

Yup -- I filed that as a bug a while back: bug 901542.
Comment 5 bfan 2013-06-17 07:16:47 UTC 
Verified with :

[root]# rpm -q libguestfs
libguestfs-1.22.2-1.el7.x86_64
[root]# rpm -q supermin-helper
supermin-helper-4.1.1-1.el7.x86_64


[root]# libguestfs-test-tool > text 2>&1
[root]# grep supermin text
libguestfs: command: run: supermin-helper
libguestfs: command: run: \ /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00029ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00029ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.img
supermin helper [00029ms] adding kernel modules
supermin helper [00063ms] finished creating appliance
supermin: mounting /proc
supermin: uptime: 0.54 0.15
supermin: ext2 mini initrd starting up: 4.1.1 zlib
supermin: cmdline: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sdb selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm
supermin: mounting /sys
supermin: internal insmod libcrc32c.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc32c-intel.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc32-pclmul.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc-itu-t.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc32.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc-ccitt.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc-t10dif.ko
supermin: internal insmod crc8.ko
supermin: internal insmod cdrom.ko
supermin: internal insmod sr_mod.ko
supermin: internal insmod libata.ko
supermin: internal insmod ata_piix.ko
supermin: internal insmod sd_mod.ko
supermin: internal insmod scsi_transport_spi.ko
supermin: internal insmod rfkill.ko
supermin: internal insmod sparse-keymap.ko
supermin: internal insmod ideapad-laptop.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_mmio.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_balloon.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio-rng.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_console.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_blk.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_scsi.ko
supermin: internal insmod virtio_net.ko
supermin: picked /sys/block/sdb/dev as root device
supermin: creating /dev/root as block special 8:16
supermin: mounting new root on /root
supermin: chroot

TEST FINISHED OK, change the status to verified
Comment 6 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:06:30 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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