On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > On 09/22/2011 02:02 PM, David Airlie wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:18:09PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:00 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>>>> grub provides no mechanism for you to know that, which means you >>>>> can't >>>>> reliably know that. Which means relying on them being compatible >>>>> is >>>>> incorrect. >>>> >>>> You described yourself how libguestfs could check it. And failing >>>> libguestfs doing it, the user could be warned to check it. >>> >>> I described something that is, practically speaking, impossible. >> >> you run rpm -q grub in the guest and on the host, if they are the same nvr, >> then they are the same package, where's the rocket science here. > > The whole point of libguestfs's usage was that the package isn't actually > installed in the guest. So that won't work. > > The rest of your point ignores that grub1 is going away as soon as is > reasonably practicable. It also ignores any non-rpm guests. - jlk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
