[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Ditch udev rule

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 10:11:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:13:06AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> >> >>
> >> >> New udev/blkid expose more ISO9660 properties that apps can grab and
> >> >> set on install media for detection to work. As a result our udev rule
> >> >> becomes redundant.
> >> >>
> >> >> This improves system bootup time conciderably if there is an ISO9660
> >> >> media inserted during bootup as our udev rule needed to parse the XML
> >> >> etc and is therefore pretty slow (keeping in mind that a few seconds are
> >> >> a long time in the land of modern udev/systemd).
> >> >
> >> > ACK, I never liked this rule existing in libosinfo in the first
> >> > place.
> >>
> >> Cool. Since merging this before systemd release would mean breaking
> >> unattended installations in Boxes (and a few other things), lets merge
> >> this after systemd release (expected in a week).
> >
> > Well that's assuming people are installing these in lockstep which
> > is not required. This dependancy is merely a distro packager or
> > documentation issue. There's  no need to hold off putting this in
> > libosinfo
> 
> I'm fine with both keeping the rules for now and ditching it already.
> I'll let you and Christophe convince each other.

Keep it for now, but update the RPM specfile so that if built for
Fedora 19, it is not installed.

Regards,
Daniel
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