[Libosinfo] [PATCH 07/12] test: Replace F19 & F21 Alpha ISO data w/ released

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 02:02:23PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> > Do we want a 'catch-all' entry without specifying a size?
>> > Or provide a way to do 'fuzzy' identification where the size would be
>> > ignored for ISO detection? "This looks like a Fedora 19 ISO" when the
>> > byte size is off by one is much better than "I don't know what ISO this
>> > is".
>>
>> My thinking was that we don't really need to care about those ISOs now
>> that they have been long obsoleted. As you can probably see through
>> the changes, it took me quite a while to make these changes so I was
>> obviously being lazy to go that extra mile to keep supporting those
>> ISOs.
>>
>> Anyway, do we really want to keep supporting those ISOs?
>
> I don't think we should put a lot of effort into supporting them.
> However, if someone has one lying on its hard-drive, knowing that the
> ISO he has looks like some kind of unknown or obsolete Fedora ISO would
> imo be much more helpful than pretending we don't know anything about
> that ISO.

I agree but my question was more like do we really need to care of
that corner case? With all these changes, we already have A LOT of
media entries and I'd rather not complicate the XML file even further
for this case.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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