[packagekit] ServicePack: Matching update media to distros

[Ken VanDine]

That sounds reasonable to me, and that is enough data.

--Ken

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:01 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:56 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Following this email will be specific thread for discussion. So no code
> > yet -- but I'm working on it.
> 
> For the update media, we need a way to detect if a user has inserted a
> "Fedora 9 64bit" into an "Ubuntu Hardy ppc64" machine.
> 
> With this in mind I'm thinking of creating a distro-string, something
> like:
> 
> fedora-8-i386
> ubuntu-6.2-ppc64
> 
> So that if the two distro-strings do not match then the update and
> install media will be refused and the user warned.
> 
> Now, two issues:
> 
> * Is this enough data (name-version-arch) to identify compatible updates
> for a distro?
> * How to get the data - given that most don't follow LSB.
> 
> I'm thinking of creating a library function
> string=pk_get_distro_id(void) that you guys can just patch to read
> things like /etc/mandrake-release and parse it into something that looks
> like fedora-8-i386.
> 
> Sane?
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
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