X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d56d21ee77e9edf458320491b7266967c139f109;hp=e376cc7148b69fbc1aa41a124735dc84864b5b20;hb=8ae7e1057f43e9b79260cdf191f39d657fdf0293;hpb=1f6bc26fc0967c6e4ae4a4514d9734288839c0fd diff --git a/README b/README index e376cc7..d56d21e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java or Haskell). You can also use it from shell scripts or the command line. -Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com). -For discussion please use the fedora-virt mailing list: +Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) and +hacked on by lots of other people. For discussion, development, +patches, etc. please use the mailing list: - https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt + http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs Home page @@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ bindings - (Optional) Perl XML::XPath, Sys::Virt modules (for libvirt support in virt-inspector). +- (Optional, but highly recommended) perl-libintl for translating perl code. + Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed on your machine. @@ -123,13 +126,17 @@ or build from our source RPMs. Debian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -libguestfs should build and run on Debian. +libguestfs is now built as a package in Debian by Guido Gunther and +the other Debian libvirt maintainers. See: + +http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianLibvirtTeam#Packages -febootstrap, yum, rpm, fakeroot, fakechroot are all packaged in -Debian. +You can build for Debian in two different ways, either building a +Fedora-based appliance using febootstrap, yum, rpm, fakeroot, +fakechroot (all packaged in Debian). However the recommended way is +to build a Debian-based appliance using debootstrap and debirf. -Please see the fedora-virt mailing list for the status of libguestfs -in Debian. +Both ways are supported by the configure script. qemu