[Libguestfs] [PATCH v6 0/1] v2v bootloaders and augeas

[Pavel Butsykin]

On 28.04.2017 21:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 07:58:41PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 28.04.2017 17:46, Pino Toscano wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:58:56 CEST Pavel Butsykin wrote:
>>>> I dare to raise an old topic :) It seemed to me that this patch already applied,
>>>> but recently discovered that it is not.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I understand we can't do a strict requirement to use Augeas >= 1.7.0.
>>>> But initially, the patch solves another problem. If we still can't do a hard
>>>> requirement for Augeas, let's use workaround proposed by Pino:
>>>>    let () =
>>>>      (* Apply the "grub" lens if it is not handling the file
>>>>       * already -- Augeas < 1.7.0 will error out otherwise.
>>>>       *)
>>>>      if g#aug_ls ("/files" ^ grub_config) = [||] then
>>>>        g#aug_transform "grub" grub_config in
>>>>
>>>> As a temporary solution looks fine.
>>>
>>> Better this solution than raising the Augeas requirements, for now.
>>>
>>
>> Rich, What about workaround?
>
> I guess.  I disagree with Pino on this, but he knows the topic better.
>
> Is there a final patch ready to apply now?  I think lost the
> beginning of this thread.

I also have little knowledge in this topic and I also wonder why we
can't move on Augeas 1.7.0. Are stable version of Linux distros can use
the fresh Libguestfs versions?

Anyway I sent patch v7 with the latest fixes.

>
> Rich.
>