[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Differentiate 'distro' and 'distrofamily' in Sys::Guestfs::Lib

[Matthew Booth]

On 17/07/09 11:21, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> IMHO doing this is a big mistake. This is what we did for virt-install
> and hugely regret it. Things just don't fall into a nice hierarchy. We
> are now looking at doing a flat list of distros + tagging/categorization
> relationships to be defined.
>
>   http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-June/msg00018.html

Thanks, Dan.

What problems did you hit? I'm inclined to think I might get away with 
it for virt-v2v because we also have so much other additional info about 
the system. So far, 'redhat' pretty much means it uses rpm rather than 
anything else.

Are you actually doing OS detection, or is this just for filling in 
distro-specific defaults? What sort of data do you have on individual 
distros?

Matt
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