On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:04:07PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > I think we need a place to store general metadata about guests. >> > >> > Here are some uses: >> > >> > - Store data about available installer ISOs, guests which are >> > archived and not known to libvirt. >> >> We will need this for our desktop integration plans but the >> understanding is that we depend on Tracker[1] for this. Tracker will >> need to be hacked to be able to differentiate between installer and >> non-installer ISOs though but thats pretty much doable. I just wonder >> if that solution also works for you? > [...] >> [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ > > Where was it planned? In a meeting we (a few members of the SPICE team) had at the desktop summit together with designers. Its not really a plan plan but more like a general agreement/understanding for now and we still await the designers to finalize it all. > Tracker seems to be a desktop search engine. > > Can we make the data available to Tracker without requiring it? > (Seems one has to write a "tracker miner" to do this) The metadata you mean? Yes, thats going to be in osinfo. I intend to write a minor that extracts just volume, system and publisher IDs and a boolean indicating if the ISO is bootable but all that doesn't need to use libosinfo (though there will be some minor duplication of code). > Do we know that Tracker will stay around long-term (unlike Beagle etc)? Beagle never really stayed around but Tracker hasn't just been around for quite some time now but is also a blessed dependency in GNOME and some of the core hackers of it are trust-worthy GNOME hackers. > Is it available without requiring GNOME and other heavyweight deps > (eg. servers, KDE)? Yes! You still need dbus session though. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list