[Libosinfo] [PATCH 07/12] test: Replace F19 & F21 Alpha ISO data w/ released

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Mar 16 14:47:50 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 02:02:23PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > Do we want a 'catch-all' entry without specifying a size?
> > Or provide a way to do 'fuzzy' identification where the size would be
> > ignored for ISO detection? "This looks like a Fedora 19 ISO" when the
> > byte size is off by one is much better than "I don't know what ISO this
> > is".
> 
> My thinking was that we don't really need to care about those ISOs now
> that they have been long obsoleted. As you can probably see through
> the changes, it took me quite a while to make these changes so I was
> obviously being lazy to go that extra mile to keep supporting those
> ISOs.
> 
> Anyway, do we really want to keep supporting those ISOs?

I don't think we should put a lot of effort into supporting them.
However, if someone has one lying on its hard-drive, knowing that the
ISO he has looks like some kind of unknown or obsolete Fedora ISO would
imo be much more helpful than pretending we don't know anything about
that ISO.

Christophe
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/attachments/20150316/cea55853/attachment.sig>


More information about the Libosinfo mailing list