[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#684885: update-guestfs-appliance fails for wheezy because it looks for 'diff' instead of 'diffutils'

[Hilko Bengen]

* Didier Raboud:

> as the title says, update-guestfs-appliance fails when trying to install
> wheezy as it will try to install "diff" while it has been replaced by
> "diffutils".

In what way does it fail? Do you get an error message?

> Furthermore, as this initially fails, after modifying
> /usr/lib/guestfs/packagelist , the download restart from scratch.
> update-guestfs-appliance should use /var/cache/apt/archives if
> possible.

Sure, that would be a feature that needs to be added to febootstrap.

Cheers,
-Hilko