[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db][PATCH] opensuse, install-script: Skip second stage

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu May 31 13:35:54 UTC 2018


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:55:18PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:00:22PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> >> > If they are public, what happens in libosinfo if we try to set a
> >> > non-existent parameter? In other word, should we consider this an
> >> > API/ABI break, or are we fine with dropping it?
> >>
> >> We're totally fine dropping it.
> >> If we try to set a non-existent parameter (or pattern) autoyast is
> >> smart enough to not break the installation because of that.
> >
> > My worry was in libosinfo API, what happens to code using libosinfo and
> > trying to set this config parameter? Is this going to cause problems? Or
> > will it just be ignored?
> 
> I see. About this, we don't actually set this parameter never ever.
> It's been only internal so far.

"we"? My question was more if hypothetical "unknown" libosinfo users
could try to use that, and get failures after it gets removed. I agree
it's very far fetched, I was just trying to assess the impact of this
removal ;)

Christophe
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