Re: [Libguestfs] Handling different architectures in virt-builder

Richard W.M. Jones
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:19:39 -0000

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Pino Toscano
wrote:
> a) adding arch=.. keys in entries
> b) rename (or just copy, to avoid breaking older virt-builders) keys to
>    $distro-$version-$arch
> c) to not break compatibility with user input virt-builder joins
>    $user_selection + $arch = $user_selection-$arch, and looks in the
>    index
> d) default $arch to `uname -m/p`, if --arch is not specified

os-version is a unique key in the index today, but does it need to be?
You could have multiple os-version entries differing only by at least
the following fields:

. revision
. arch
. format

So your unique key internally in virt-builder would be (os-version,
revision, arch, format) ...

Rich.

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