[Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at redhat.com
Wed May 6 05:40:37 UTC 2015


On 05/06/2015 02:34 PM, Dan Callaghan wrote:
> Excerpts from Amit Saha's message of 2015-05-06 13:48 +10:00:
>> The exception is for distros which are RHEL like but has a different 
>> name. I will think about it.
> 
> I think if none of the pre-defined list of OS majors matches then it 
> should just pick *anything* and we just hope it will work. That should 
> cover the RHEL-alikes.

Could we pull the list of preferred inventory distros from a
configuration file rather than hardcoding it? That should be easier to
update when Fedora versions cycle, and also provides a way for instance
administrators to replace the default list with a different one.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat PnT Operations
DevOps Enablement, Brisbane

Software Development Workflow Designer & Process Architect


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