[Beaker-devel] Exposing the the host's hostname to the guest

Raymond Mancy rmancy at redhat.com
Sun Jul 14 23:23:02 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Callaghan" <dcallagh at redhat.com>
> To: "Raymond Mancy" <rmancy at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Beaker development" <beaker-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 6:08:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Beaker-devel] Exposing the the host's hostname to the guest
> 
> Excerpts from Raymond Mancy's message of 2013-07-01 17:19:47 +1000:
> > The change to beah should be even more minimal:
> > 
> >   -    GUEST_ATTRS = ('system', 'mac_address', 'location', 'guestargs',
> >   'guestname')
> >   +    GUEST_ATTRS = ('system', 'mac_address', 'location', 'guestargs',
> >   'guestname', 'hostfqdn')
> 
> I'm pretty sure this bit of code relates to producing the
> comma-and-colon-separated value of the GUESTS env var which is
> deprecated and quite frankly a useless nightmarish mess. GUESTS is not
> really usable since version 0.10 anyway.
> 
> So the beah side will be more work than this one line. But still not too
> hard :-)
> 

Correct, I found that out when I spent more than 5 minutes looking at the code (I think
the beah side patch was 2 or 3 lines).
The patch I put up on gerrit on this change was also not this :-)

> --
> Dan Callaghan <dcallagh at redhat.com>
> Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering and Development
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 


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