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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> 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.

Well, seeing http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=238953
I can't help but think that this code would be better at the
OsinfoInstallScriptList level rather than in apps/libvirt-designer.

Christophe
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