Package: libguestfs0 Version: 1.14.1-2 I only just heard about libguestfs tonight, thought it sounded very useful and less hassle than calculating partition offsets for loopback mounts. went to install it, and it wanted to remove zfsutils (a locally compiled debian version of the ubuntu zfsonlinux ppa with a slightly modified debian/control file) in favour of zfs-fuse. ummm, no thanks.
e.g. # apt-get -d -u install guestfish guestmount python-guestfs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: augeas-lenses cryptsetup febootstrap jfsutils libaugeas0 libconfig8 libcryptsetup1 libguestfs0 libhivex0 scrub vim-tiny zerofree zfs-fuse Suggested packages: augeas-doc busybox augeas-tools kpartx The following packages will be REMOVED: zfsutils The following NEW packages will be installed: augeas-lenses cryptsetup febootstrap guestfish guestmount jfsutils libaugeas0 libconfig8 libcryptsetup1 libguestfs0 libhivex0 python-guestfs scrub vim-tiny zerofree zfs-fuse 0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 1 to remove and 151 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/5,101 kB of archives. After this operation, 14.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. I suggest changing that dependency from 'zfs-fuse' to 'zfs-fuse | zfsutils'. zfsonlinux doesn't exist in debian (yet), but most debian users who install zfsonlinux will probably take the easy path that i did and recompile the ubuntu packages. native kernel zfs IS already in debian/kfreebsd, so might help with compatibility there. alternatively, it would probably be much better to change the Depends to Recommends or Suggests for 'unusual' filesystems like zfs, cryptfs, reiserfs, jfs, ntfs, probably even xfs. same for lvm2 (anyone using zfsonlinux or zfs-fuse and probably btrfs is extremely unlikely to be using LVM). ext2/3/4 is pretty much guaranteed to be installed on almost every debian systems, btrfs is the upcoming 'standard' fs for linux but the others are typically only installed by people who really need/want them. Suggets or Recommends seems more appropriate than Depends for everything beyond the bare minimum of what libguestfs0 actually needs. e.g. gparted doesn't Depend on the tools or libs for all file-systems that it supports, it just suggests them: Package: gparted [..] Suggests: xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools, yelp, kpartx, dmraid, dmsetup BTW, looking at that depends line below there are a few other odd and possibly excessive dependencies. e.g. does it really need to specify vim-tiny? i already have vim installed. and does libguesfs0 really require qemu-kvm to run, or is it just a convenience? not a problem for me, i mostly use kvm...but i imagine Xen users won't really want it installed. and are scrub or zerofree or parted required if all you want to do is mount or examine or clone a vm's disk? and i can't figure out if febootstrap is needed for basic functionality or if it's only needed for specific kinds of image manipulation? Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhivex0, libmagic1, libpcre3 (>= 8.10), libvirt0 (>= 0.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, febootstrap (>= 3.2), qemu-kvm (>= 0.13), bsdmainutils, btrfs-tools, cryptsetup, diffutils, iproute, libaugeas0, ntfs-3g, ntfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, udev, vim-tiny, xz-utils, zfs-fuse, binutils, cpio, dosfstools, file, jfsutils, lsof, lvm2, module-init-tools, net-tools, parted, procps, scrub, strace, xfsprogs, zerofree craig ps: as a short term workaround i could probably modify the debian/control file so that the zfsonlinux zfs-dkms or zfsutils package falsely claimed that it Replaces and/or Provides zfs-fuse, but that might cause other weird dependancy problems. -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org