Libguestfs - Jan 2015 - [PATCH] virt-buider: doc: Use osinfo-query to get OS variants

Upstream dropped[1] support for '--os-variant list' in favor of using
`osinfo-query` tool provided by the libosinfo project.

To get a list of all accepted operating systems, invoke:

  osinfo-query os

[1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=bcb60f0
---
 builder/virt-builder.pod | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builder/virt-builder.pod b/builder/virt-builder.pod
index
0177cc3a4edad8c1ce3d395759a15e043945b121..004eafb4691dee9b4cfb184c8bef834aff84dee5
100644
--- a/builder/virt-builder.pod
+++ b/builder/virt-builder.pod
@@ -876,7 +876,9 @@ I<--os-variant> is highly recommended, because it will
present optimum
 devices to enable the guest to run most efficiently.  To get a list
 of all variants, do:
 
- virt-install --os-variant list
+ osinfo-query os
+
+The above tool is provided by libosinfo package.
 
 =item 3.
 
-- 
1.9.3

On Tuesday 13 January 2015 19:31:09 Kashyap Chamarthy
wrote:
> Upstream dropped[1] support for '--os-variant list' in favor of
using
> `osinfo-query` tool provided by the libosinfo project.
> 
> To get a list of all accepted operating systems, invoke:
> 
>   osinfo-query os
> 
> [1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=bcb60f0
> ---
>  builder/virt-builder.pod | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builder/virt-builder.pod b/builder/virt-builder.pod
> index
0177cc3a4edad8c1ce3d395759a15e043945b121..004eafb4691dee9b4cfb184c8bef834aff84dee5
100644
> --- a/builder/virt-builder.pod
> +++ b/builder/virt-builder.pod
> @@ -876,7 +876,9 @@ I<--os-variant> is highly recommended, because it
will present optimum
>  devices to enable the guest to run most efficiently.  To get a list
>  of all variants, do:
>  
> - virt-install --os-variant list
> + osinfo-query os
> +
> +The above tool is provided by libosinfo package.
>  
>  =item 3.
>  
LGTM.

-- 
Pino Toscano

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy
wrote:
> Upstream dropped[1] support for '--os-variant list' in favor of
using
> `osinfo-query` tool provided by the libosinfo project.
Bleah .. command line arguments are API.
> To get a list of all accepted operating systems, invoke:
> 
>   osinfo-query os
> 
> [1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=bcb60f0
> ---
>  builder/virt-builder.pod | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builder/virt-builder.pod b/builder/virt-builder.pod
> index
0177cc3a4edad8c1ce3d395759a15e043945b121..004eafb4691dee9b4cfb184c8bef834aff84dee5
100644
> --- a/builder/virt-builder.pod
> +++ b/builder/virt-builder.pod
> @@ -876,7 +876,9 @@ I<--os-variant> is highly recommended, because it
will present optimum
>  devices to enable the guest to run most efficiently.  To get a list
>  of all variants, do:
>  
> - virt-install --os-variant list
> + osinfo-query os
> +
> +The above tool is provided by libosinfo package.
>  
>  =item 3.
ACK.

Rich.

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