[Libosinfo] [PATCH v2] installer: API to query device driver signing requirement

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> Some OS vendors recommend or require device drivers to be signed by them
>> before these device drivers could be installed on their OS. This
>> recommendation/requirement then also applies to the installer scripts of
>> that particular OS.
>>
>> This API enables apps to query such requirement/recommendation, if any.
>
> ACK.
> For what it's worth, the InstallScript level really is the wrong level for
> this kind of things as multiple install scripts are typically needed to
> install a single OS, and this API acts on a single install script. As a
> library user, I don't really care about that level of detail, and having
> something global to all install scripts needed to install an OS would be
> plenty enough.

I see your point but this is actually going to happen on InstallConfig
level and I imagine apps (just like Boxes) will use the same config
for all scripts of the same profile of the same OS. What does puts me
off a bit is the fact that same profile scripts of the same OS are not
really glued together, so it can easily trick app devs in believing
that they are independent.

I guess this is where the libvirt-builder will be useful, putting all
these together for apps so they don't need to use these (rather
low-level) API. I'm hoping to work on that as GNOME 3.10/Fedora 20
feature.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124