Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] Differentiate 'distro' and 'distrofamily' in Sys::Guestfs::Lib
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
Rich.
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