[virt-tools-list] [PATCH libosinfo] Add a 'distro' property for OS objects

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 22:09:11 UTC 2012


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:58:57PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> >
> > The OS 'family' property is used to refer to the kernel type of
> > the OS. The new 'distro' property refers to the grouping of OS
> > by a particular vendor. For example all Linux distros have a
> > family of 'Linux', but their own distinct 'distro' value (Fedora,
> > Ubuntu, etc). Debian is even more fun having alternate releases
> > which use a Hurd of FreeBSD kernel, these variants will each have
> > the 'hurd' or 'freebsd' family, with a common 'debian' distro.
> 
> ACK for the code part of this and general change but seems the only OS
> xml file you edited was the one with no distro?

Urgh, rebase screwup. This shouldn't have touched any of the data/
files at all, just the code.

I'll fill in the actual values in a patch tomorrow.

Daniel
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