On 17/07/09 12:21, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:06:31PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
On 17/07/09 11:21, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
IMHO doing this is a big mistake. This is what we did for virt-install and hugely regret it. Things just don't fall into a nice hierarchy. We are now looking at doing a flat list of distros + tagging/categorization relationships to be defined.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-June/msg00018.html Thanks, Dan.
What problems did you hit? I'm inclined to think I might get away with it for virt-v2v because we also have so much other additional info about the system. So far, 'redhat' pretty much means it uses rpm rather than anything else.
How about instead of "distrofamily" we add flags to tell us what we actually want to know:
uses_rpm uses_dpkg
or, as this would be single-os specific: package_management=rpm package_management=dpkg My only concern about that scheme is that at this point we have little idea about what we need to know. I guess it won't be too hard to add it as we go along. I can make this change on Monday morning if you like. Matt -- Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team M: +44 (0)7977 267231 GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490