[Libosinfo] [libosinfo PATCH 0/7] Drop GVFS dependency in favour of libsoup

[Cole Robinson]

On 6/27/19 8:56 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Let's rely on libsoup in order to to http://, https://, and ftp://
> requests.
> 
> By doing this, GVFS (more specifically, gvfs-http) won't be dragged as
> a dependency, which caused errors for apps running as root (as GVFS
> relies on being run in the user's session).
> 
> https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/libosinfo/issues/30
> 
> Fabiano Fidêncio (7):
>   media: Fix indentation in create_from_location_asunc_data_free()
>   tree: Remove not used Tree from _CreateFromLocationAsyncData struct
>   media: Improve on_location_read error message readability
>   media: Use GInpuStream directly in on_location_read()
>   media: Use libsoup for http://, https://, and ftp:// requests
>   tree: Use libsoup for http://, https://, and ftp:// requests
>   spec: Drop gvfs dependency
> 
>  configure.ac          |   5 +-
>  libosinfo.spec.in     |   2 +-
>  osinfo/Makefile.am    |   5 +-
>  osinfo/libosinfo.syms |   2 +
>  osinfo/osinfo_media.c |  86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  osinfo/osinfo_tree.c  | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  osinfo/osinfo_tree.h  |  11 +++++
>  7 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 

Does libsoup actually handle FTP? Googling doesn't turn up any obvious
hits. That said I don't know if GVFS handles it either. With the
virt-manager test suite and libosinfo git master, I see:

$ ./setup.py test_urls --debug --force-libosinfo --only fedora-ftp
...
DEBUG    Error creating libosinfo tree object for
location=ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/30/Server/x86_64/os/
: g-io-error-quark: Failed to load .treeinfo|treeinfo file: The
specified location is not mounted (16)
...

So it doesn't seem to work anyway. But with your patch series it hangs
until it hits a two minute socket timeout. Which makes me wonder if
libsoup is trying to talk http to an ftp URL.

FWIW I don't think that should be an argument for keeping a gvfs
dependency. It's getting hard to even find public ftp mirrors these days

- Cole