[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager PATCH] installertreemedia, unattended: Only use kernel args from libosinfo

Fabiano Fidêncio fidencio at redhat.com
Mon Apr 29 12:13:21 UTC 2019


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:42 PM Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 03:42:36PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > When performing a tree based unattended installation, some distros
> > require extra arguments to be passed to the kernel command line.
> >
> > Although those extra arguments are handled by
> > _OsVariant::get_kernel_url_arg(), it's libosinfo responsability to
> > properly inform them to the management apps.
> >
> > With that in mind and knowing that osinfo-db has been updated
> > accordingly, we can fully rely on the command line returned by libosinfo
> > and stop appending arguments returned by get_kernel_url_arg() when
> > performing unattended installations.
>
> What happens if there is osinfo-db version installed that supports
> unattended installation but the cmdline is still broken?

Then the cmdline would be broken.
However, as there's *no* released code with unattended installation
functionality, I think that those changes may be fine, Mainly because
once we do release virt-manager we'd add a Requires: osinfo-db >=
specific version.

[snip]




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