[Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

Matt Jia mjia at redhat.com
Wed May 6 23:31:53 UTC 2015


> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dan Callaghan" <dcallagh at redhat.com>
> > > To: "beaker-devel" <beaker-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 3:48:16 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker
> > > 
> > > Excerpts from Nick Coghlan's message of 2015-05-06 15:40 +10:00:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> 

> Storing this in the db is overkill, the only reason we need a "preferred 
> list of distro families" at all is because we still haven't finished the 
> migration to lshw. Once that is done, the choice of distro becomes 
> basically irrelevant because lshw should be giving us the same info 
> everywhere. This is only a stop-gap while we have smolt on RHEL5/6 and 
> lshw elsewhere.
   
  Fair enough, I did not see the context.


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