[virt-tools-list] [libosinfo 1/2] Add 'install-stages' parameter to OsinfoMedia

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 03:48:54PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:32:45AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> >>
> >> If media is an installer, this specifies the number of install stages
> >> (IOW number of reboots the intaller takes before installation is
> >> complete). Default value is '1'.
> >
> > Why not install-reboots rather than install-stages?
> 
> Because it sounds better? :)

But it's weird/less accurate imo, no strong feeling there.

> 
> > 1 as a default value is wrong for live images.
> 
> You are not supposed to call this function on those and we have a
> guard for that:
> 
> g_return_val_if_fail(osinfo_media_get_installer (media), -1);

Ah, I missed this one, can you add to the documentation that passing a
non-installer is an error and will return -1?

> 
> In the prop, i guess we can just declare the default value to '-1'?
> 
> >And I'm not really sure what
> > the value should be for live images combined with an installer. Any
> > thoughts about this?
> 
> Good question, didn't think of that. I haven't seen any such media
> that will need >1 reboots during installation though so its either
> they installed an OS during a live session or not. Also, as long as
> this API doesn't lie, I'm not sure we should be worrying about that
> issue on this level?

I'm not necessarily saying we should handle it in this API call, but if the
API does not "just work" in some corner cases, we still need to have a
story to tell for these cases to users of the API, and preferrably to be
able to explain all of this in the documentation.

Christophe
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