[Users] ovirt-guest-agent on debian?

[René Koch]

On 04/07/2014 12:01 AM, Boudewijn Ector wrote:
> On 01-04-14 09:48, René Koch wrote:
>> On 04/01/2014 09:18 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> well I can use the guest agent for ubuntu 12.04 (precise)
>>> really well on a debian 7 64 bit.
>>
>> I can confirm this - precise package works fine on Debian.
>>
> Hi Rene,Sven, ea,
>
>
> How did you get it to actually work? I got the deb from
> (http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/main/o/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb)
> , since I'm not willing to add ubuntu sources to my apt-configuration
> since that might make me run into dependency troubles later on.

This one works fine with Debian:

https://launchpad.net/~zhshzhou/+archive/vdsm-ubuntu/+files/ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.8.201309301944.gitb7f8f2-1ppa1_all.deb

The version you try to use is for Ubuntu 13.10.


Regards,
René


>
> After downloading and dpkg -i'ing it, I ran an apt-get -f install in
> order to get the dependencies. Then I reran dpkg:
>
>
> root at host:~# dpkg -i
> ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 42961 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack
> ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb ...
> invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit
> status 100
> dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
> invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> dpkg: error processing archive
> ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb (--install):
>   subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
> invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 100
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb
>
> There's a configfile regarding initscripts in /etc/init,  but no such
> thing on the sste, (I just had a look at the contents of the ubuntu
> package too).
> How did you resolve this? Creating my own initscript isn't that hard but
> it sucks when it comes to having a maintainable setup...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Boudewijn
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