On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:45:11AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. Guys ... libguestfs can inspect any guest and work out what apps are installed, what OS there is, what arch, what bootloader etc. We support a dozen different Linux distros (not just rpm/deb-based but some really odd ones too), along with FreeBSD, and Windows. We really have thought about all of this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
