[Libosinfo] [PATCH 4/4] gnome: Add info about 3.10

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Wed Sep 11 12:49:53 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:42:16PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> I am not adding ISO info because due to gnome-ostree project now
>> producing installed qcow2 images, the motivation to produce the ISOs has
>> dropped significantly.
>>
>> Would be really nice for libosinfo to be able to detect OS from images
>> too but that might not be feasible so at least for now apps would have
>> to do their own detection (perhaps through guestfs).
>
> If we are not going to have a 3.10 ISO (which your initial paragraph seems
> to imply), then I feel it would be better to have a good story as to how we
> are going to support .qcow2 images before adding this.

Thats a question of detection and we may or may not provide that detection.

> In this specific case, I don't think it's a good idea to add info meant for
> GNOME live cd images, and tell applications that this info is also good for
> GNOME os tree qcow2 images,

We are providing info about gnome 3.10, whether its installed from
ISO, run from a live ISO or pre-installed disk images is not very
relevant to the question of whether we should provide info about it or
not.

> the requirements for the 2 OSes could end up
> being different.

They can't possibly be drastically different given, can they? If you
want to do this research, that would be lovely of course but for now
its better to provide at least some close approximation to the actual
requirement than not providing any.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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