[augeas-devel] Augeas to parse informational files from install CDs?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Background:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/libguestfs-live-cd-inspection/#content

I've been exploring installer CDs and live CDs and many of them
contain small text information files describing the contents.  Is it
within the scope of Augeas to provide support for parsing these?
Obviously the files are read-only, there is no need to modify them.

These files are not in a fixed location, but found relative to the
mountpoint of the CD.

Assuming it is in scope, then here are some examples:

(1) From Fedora DVD:

Two files of interest, '/.discinfo' and '/.treeinfo', examples
attached.  There are many interesting fields, but particularly we'd
like to read the OS name, version, architecture and disk number.

(2) From Windows XP - 2003 install CDs:

We parse a file called '/i386/txtsetup.sif' ('/amd64/txtsetup.sif' on
x86-64).  These huge text files contain several interesting fields
describing the CD including:

  cdname      = "Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition CD-ROM"
  productname = "Windows Server 2003, Enterprise"
  [...]
  MajorVersion = 5
  MinorVersion = 2
  DefaultPath=\WINDOWS

Example is too large to attach, but I put it here:
http://oirase.annexia.org/txtsetup.sif.txt

Rich.

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1287685820.403779
Fedora 14
x86_64
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[general]
version = 14
arch = x86_64
family = Fedora
packagedir = 
timestamp = 1287685637.11
discnum = 1
variant = Fedora
totaldiscs = 1

[images-x86_64]
kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd.img
boot.iso = images/boot.iso

[images-xen]
kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd.img

[stage2]
mainimage = images/install.img

[checksums]
images/efidisk.img = sha256:79410c75ae443e30c11f4073eb01b69898b247d8f65cde1e711540594a37b065
images/boot.iso = sha256:e68652890fc783fd2d3db3fb3dbb1f1018cb5e34cc89e2b880bad566dacbd5e3
images/efiboot.img = sha256:1a431590fd65c4300d2092a77e6b7ca05805f9b234e3cd23ae54eddc35b57a82
images/install.img = sha256:09c831ff61d6c35623ae8020c6f76ef8a1eed638190c36b7216a2ab638577267
images/pxeboot/initrd.img = sha256:070ed6b749387afd6c26127062fe22f9cc815f6a8723b75f792a5595dc10b272
images/pxeboot/vmlinuz = sha256:8b6977e9b69183d143b3a2bfc21ae04b33d2bc862fe4e23b0d44e63d1537a4e1
repodata/repomd.xml = sha256:8705b2a07b6207c13f1c035cd9039a4495fffd998e0d091ec05c148e420c570c