[Libguestfs] [PATCH] inspect: avoid returning "unknownX.Y" for unknown Linux distros

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 9 13:19:43 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 06:39:47PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> If it is not possible to detect the distribution of a Linux OS, do not
> propose "unknownX.Y" (where X is the major version number, and Y the
> minor) as short osinfo ID. Just return "unknown" instead.
> ---
>  lib/inspect-osinfo.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/inspect-osinfo.c b/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
> index ba07e4564..d2272dfdd 100644
> --- a/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
> +++ b/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ guestfs_impl_inspect_get_osinfo (guestfs_h *g, const char *root)
>        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d.%d", distro, major, minor);
>      }
>  
> -    if (major > 0 || minor > 0)
> +    if (STRNEQ (distro, "unknown") && (major > 0 || minor > 0))
>        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d.%d", distro, major, minor);
>    }
>    else if (STREQ (type, "freebsd") || STREQ (type, "netbsd") || STREQ (type, "openbsd"))
> -- 

ACK

Rich.

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