On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:38:11AM +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote: > Hello, > I was looking at the recent code in OSDistro.py > Can we switch to using the new .treeinfo file and the information there > instead of the current if hasFile() mechanism? > The .treeinfo provides with all the information needed to detect the > family type (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS ???) and boot images location. > Also improve the acquire$FILE functions with that information. What new .treeinfo file ? It sounds interesting, but this is the first I've heard of it... Is there anywhere that describes it ? I don't see a .treeinfo file on the Fedora download sites, eg http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/ > The reason I'm requesting this: in newer Fedora repos the packages dir > is simply called "Packages" but not "Fedora" and wrt remixing tools it > may be called with any name I think. OSDistro.py uses the presence of > fedora.css in the repo to decide on a Fedora distribution. This file > is not essential to the install process and may be missing in some repos. > > What do you think? If there's ways we can improve the OS detection, I'm open to any suggestions. Currently, we do the probing whether the user has manually selected a distro type or not. One optimization would be to only do the probing if the user has NOT explicitly selected a distro type. This would give users an easy way to force the install to continue even if the 'magic' files are missing. eg, if you select 'Fedora 8' in virt-manager it would just go straight to the kernel/initrd fetch stage. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
