Yeah, that's right Ian. However adding a new method called new_image() 
to all of the boot loader configuration classes (*ConfigFile classes) 
will still be necessary. I wrote a new version of my patch to add 
support for new_image() method all the existing classes and did the 
modifications to pygrub.

As in previous version of my patch, the isconfig debug option has been 
fixed too.

Keir, please use this version to be committed.

Thanks,
Michal

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>

On 05/25/2010 06:22 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:13 +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
>    
>> Ok, I found that the infrastructure of ExtLinuxImage and LiloImage is
>> different so I rewrote it a little (but according to the code the old
>> behaviour should be preserved) and also fixed the isconfig bug (since no
>> img.initrd is accessible that time).
>>
>> So please ignore the previous version of my patch and use this one.
>>      
> Perhaps instead of these two hunks:
>
> --- a/tools/pygrub/src/pygrub   Tue May 25 11:28:58 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/pygrub/src/pygrub   Tue May 25 17:10:32 2010 +0200
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class Grub:
>                       continue
>
>                   # if we got boot, then we want to boot the entered image
> -                img = grub.GrubConf.GrubImage(lines)
> +                img = self.imgcl("entered", lines)
>                   self.cf.add_image(img)
>                   self.selected_image = len(self.cf.images) - 1
>                   self.isdone = True
>
> [...]
>                   self.cf = parser()
>                   self.cf.filename = f
> +
> +                # Get the bootloader image file constructor to imgcl
> +                if type(self.cf) == grub.LiloConf.LiloConfigFile:
> +                    self.imgcl = grub.LiloConf.LiloImage
> +                elif type(self.cf) == grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile:
> +                    self.imgcl = grub.GrubConf.Grub2Image
> +                elif type(self.cf) ==
> grub.ExtLinuxConf.ExtLinuxConfigFile:
> +                    self.imgcl = grub.ExtLinuxConf.ExtLinuxImage
> +                else:
> +                    self.imgcl = grub.GrubConf.GrubImage
> +
>                   break
>           if self.__dict__.get('cf', None) is None:
>               raise RuntimeError, "couldn't find bootloader config file
> in the image provided."
>
> We could add a method to each of the self.cf classes which returns a new
> image from the title+lines given. Then the first hunk becomes something
> like:
>
> -                img = grub.GrubConf.GrubImage(lines)
> +                img = self.cf.new_image("entered", lines)
>
> and the second bit goes away. This would be nice since it avoids
> hardcoding another list of bootloaders.
>
> Ian.
>
>    


-- 
Michal Novotny<minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat