[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db/libosinfo PATCH 0/6] Add support to images

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:09:03AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> ie essentially encode the file content probing rules that libguestfs
> has, as osinfo DB information, so that it becomes user extendable in
> the normal way we do for ISO/install tree. Admittedly the image probing
> rules are significantly more complicated than ISO/install tree probiing
> rules, but I think it is doable if we wanted to. It ultimately just
> comes down to a (very large) set of file content matches.

It's rather more complicated than that.  It's definitely not true to
say that libguestfs is just doing some regexps over files.

Also I think this duplicates the functionality of other tools (notably
facter, but there are others).  Just tell people to use facter if they
are running "in guest".

Rich.

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