[virt-tools-list] [PATCH libosinfo 2/7] Add APIs for dealing with installer automation scripts

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:55:30AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> >
> > This introduces two new objects
> >
> >  - OsinfoInstallConfig - stores configuration parameters which get
> >   substituted into the install script template.
> >  - OsinfoInstallScript - provides a template and the mechanism for
> >   turning it into an install script using XSLT
> 
> Good stuff! Hard to digest as its a big patch so I might be missing
> something obvious here but doesn't this assume the install script to
> be always in XML format (which is not true for actually most OSs)?

No, XSLT can output plain text data just fine - see the later patches
which already do this for Fedora and Windows SIF files

> > +#define OSINFO_INSTALL_CONFIG_PROP_L10N_TIMEZONE  "l10n-timezone"
> > +#define OSINFO_INSTALL_CONFIG_PROP_L10N_LANGUAGE  "l10n-language"
> > +#define OSINFO_INSTALL_CONFIG_PROP_L10N_KEYBOARD  "l10n-keyboard"
> 
> Is the 'l10n'  really needed in the name? "Localization language"
> sounds wrong/weird to me.

I just want a way to group together entries that are related to
the user's location/local settings.

Regards,
Daniel
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