[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] v2v: allow alternative directories for distributions

[Tomáš Golembiovský]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:42:15 +0100
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:

> Il giorno sab 26 gen 2019, 13:20 Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi at redhat.com>
> ha scritto:
> 
> > Allow multiple alternative directory names for distributions (or
> > distribution familiy) when installing Linux guest tools packages.
> > Original naming required that there is a separate directory for every
> > version of a distribution (e.g. fc28, fc29, ...). This is inconvenient
> > when users want to keep just a single version of the package for the
> > distribution.
> >
> > For each distribution one can have either a common directory (e.g.
> > fedora) or a versioned directory (fedora28). This can also be combined.
> > I.e. one can have both `fedora` and `fedora28` in which case `fedora28`
> > will be used when converting Fedora 28 guest wheres `fedora` will be
> > used when converting guests with any other Fedora version.
> >
> > To have better names for unversioned directories the original names
> > were changed this way:
> >
> >     fc -> fedora
> >     el -> rhel
> >  
> 
> 
> this will cut centos off
> 
> 

Nope, `rhel` directory is used also for CentOS (as well as oraclelinux
and scientific linux).

> 
> >     lp -> suse

Similarly here it's SLES as well as Leap.

> >
> > The original directory names are kept for backward compatibility and are
> > aliased to new names as described below. When both new and old name are
> > present on file system the new name takes precedence.
> >
> >     fc28 -> fedora
> >     el6 -> rhel6
> >     el7 -> rhel7
> >     lp151 -> suse
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  v2v/windows_virtio.ml | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)