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.TH LIBGUESTFS 8 "August 2011"
.SH NAME
update-guestfs-appliance \- update the supermin appliance used by
libguestfs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-guestfs-appliance
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBupdate-guestfs-appliance\fP creates or updates the supermin
appliance for use with libguestfs. It uses \fBfebootstrap\fP for this,
therefore access to the package repository is needed.
.PP
A supermin appliance contains only lists of files and directories. The
contents of the referenced files are only copied into an ad-hoc
filesystem whenever libguestfs starts a virtual machine. Therefore,
calling \fBupdate-guestfs-appliance\fP is only needed after libguestfs
has been installed or when the filesystem layouts or dependencies of
needed packages on the host system have been changed.
.PP
.SH FILES
.BR /usr/lib/guestfs/make.sh
(the script that does the actual work),
.nh
.nf
.BR /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
.BR /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
.fi
.hy
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR guestfish (1),
.BR guestmount (1),
.BR febootstrap (8),
.BR febootstrap-supermin-helper (8).
.SH AUTHOR
\fBupdate-guestfs-appliance\fP and this manual page were written by
Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be
used by others).