Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] Initial drop of virt-v2v

On 25/07/09 02:14, Guido Günther wrote: >Hi Matthew, >not that I'm qualified to comment on this but it seems this is very >rpm/RedHat specific. Would it make sense to abstrǎct the package format >from the very beginning by introducing some thin wrappers: It's absolutely Red Hat specific. That code's from RedHat.pm ;) One of the principal reasons the code is structured this way is to make the Debian hooks easier to write and maintain. I think I mentioned in one of my other emails that much of RedHat.pm is actually quite generic. In writing a Debian module, I'd expect to abstract a significant amount of code into a common module. Unless you can convince me otherwise I'm inclined to keep the OS level abstraction, rather than just package management. The reason for this is that different distros using the same package manager can be quite different. This is especially true for rpm. Abstracting common code should achieve everything you're looking for.