On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:55:25PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:22:03PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> Sure but there is nothing stopping you from doing that. If you got a > >> 3.12 image at the time of 3.18, Boxes (or any app) should be about to > >> tell that it is a 3.12 image and not a 3.18 one. > > > > How would the detection work? > > Not in a simple and nice way, I'm afraid. I convinced Colin to add > date to the filename and I have unmerged patches to Boxes that > compares the date on the file to that in the gnome OS entries: > As you said in https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-November/msg00066.html , this date based detection is going to be inaccurate around stable release time (we'll know gnome-continuous switched to the next development release around that date, but we won't know for sure exactly when). Wouldn't it be possible to use GNOME Shell or GNOME $something version as the base for the current GNOME version? This would mean some fuseiso games, but could be more accurate. This would also let us remove the version/release date from the libosinfo GNOME continuous metadata. Christophe
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