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libguestfs: fix perl commands #77996

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Motivation for this change

Commands depending on perl such as virt-list-partitions or virt-list-filesystems were not working, as some dependencies couldn't be found by perl.

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Provide dependencies via PERL5LIB wrapper.

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ljli commented Jan 19, 2020

I addressed the review comment.
Regarding refactoring, I tried to use perl.withPackages. The libguestfs perl commands depend on a perl module path in the derivation itself (second --prefix PERL5LIB argument to makeWrapper). But perl.withPackages produces a wrapped perl that simply sets PERL5LIB, overwriting the inherited PERL5LIB content without adding to it. I wasn't sure how to deal with that.

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Seems virt-list-partitions or virt-list-filesystems have been replaced: https://libguestfs.org/virt-filesystems.1.html
Is this PR still needed?

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In case we still need it, I merged master into it, to fix the conflicts.

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twz123 commented Aug 3, 2022

I've opened a version update for libguestfs which addresses the issue with the Perl bindings: #185015. Note that as of libguestfs 1.46, many of the CLI tools (including virt-filesystems) have moved to the new guestfs-tools project. That one is not yet packaged for NixOS, but I'm giving it a stab right now (#185029).

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