[libvirt] [libvirt-glib] [PATCH 3/4] GVirDomainSnapshot: Add _set_config

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey,

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 03:52:17PM +0200, Timm Bäder wrote:
> Also in reply to the 0/4:
> It will modify the existing one, as long as you don't change the name.
> Like if you use get_config, then set_description on that config and
> then _set_config again, no additional snapshot will be created.
> If you change only the snapshot's name and then use set_config on it,
> it'll create a new snapshot that is equivalent to the snapshot you
> wanted to modify except for the name (and to really "modify" the old
> snapshot, you now have to delete the old one, which is one reason why
> we show the description to the user instead of the name in gnome-boxes).
> I had a conversation with eblake on IRC about this and it seemed like
> this is the wanted behavior (or at least it's a well-known limitation?).
> 
> So I guess the name is still correct, but maybe the docs should mention
> that renaming won't work as expected?

Hmm at this point I'd error out if the name is different. If people
complain about this, or if this is too limiting, then we can reconsider
with clear use cases to decide how this should behave. How does that
sound?

Christophe
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