Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: Fix kernel disambiguation by dropping Epoch field (RHBZ#1669395).

When detecting kernels we have to list the files in the package to find the right /boot/vmlinuz file. In virt-v2v 1.28 we ran: rpm -ql kernel Because multiple kernels can be installed this gave incorrect results, which was reported in RHBZ#1161250 and initially fixed in commit 377bc302f11db3da4263f894c76a7d280fb25dbd. This changed the command to: rpm -ql [epoch:]kernel-version.release where the epoch: prefix was only used if the epoch was != 0. However this in fact failed if epoch was != 0 (which isn't the case for ordinary RHEL kernels in RHEL >= 5). Since it broke RHEL <= 4 this was reported as bug RHBZ#1170685 and fixed only for RHEL 3/4 in commit 205a8c7ca1ed1d66bef56d75c3c244e726e3bbbf. That fix removed the optional epoch: prefix for RHEL 3/4. But the prefix is wrong on all versions of RPM, even the latest one. eg. on Fedora 29: $ rpm -ql 2:qemu-3.1.0-4.fc30.x86_64 package 2:qemu-3.1.0-4.fc30.x86_64 is not installed (In fact latest RPM does let you use name-epoch:version.release, but that was not true in RHEL 6 or 7). The solution here is to remove the epoch entirely. It's rather unlikely that two kernels will be installed with identical NVR and different Epoch. Just using NVR is sufficient to fix the original bug RHBZ#1161250.