Current releases
Osinfo database
The Osinfo database is updated frequently (whenever there is a relevant set
of new content) and so individual releases are not listed here. Please consult
the download site directly for
release archives, named with the filename pattern osinfodb-$DATE.tar.xz.
Osinfo database tools
osinfo-db-tools 1.10.0 (gpg) Feb 14th, 2022
Changes in this release include
- Port to libsoup3 (optional)
- Several CI improvements
- Several translation improvements
libosinfo 1.10.0 (gpg) Feb 14th, 2022
Changes in this release include:
- Add API for resolving multiple tree matches
- Add API for resolving multiple media matches
- Add API to match between two OsinfoTree
- Add API to match between two OsinfoMedia
- Add API to get a complete list of firmwares
- Add missing documentation of osinfo_os_add_firmware()
- Add release status to osinfo-query
- Add --all flag to all tools to report all matches
- Fix hiding database entries
- Adapt to libsoup3 which is now preferred over libsoup2
- Several CI improvements
- Several translations improvements
All source archives for the previous releases are available for download at the release hosting site
Previous release notes are available at in the NEWS file.
Deployment procedure
osinfo-db-tools
The osinfo-db-tools package is a pre-requisite of osinfo-db and libosinfo, so should be built and installed first. It provides a small set of tools for managing the installation, bundling and distribution of database files
$ tar zxvf osinfo-db-tools-$VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd osinfo-db-tools-$VERSION
$ meson setup build -Dprefix=/usr -Dsysconfdir=/etc -Dlocalstatedir=/var
$ ninja -C build
$ sudo ninja -C build install
osinfo-db
The osinfo-db package does not contain any code, nor does it require building, as it is purely XML database files. Its contents merely have to be unpacked in the correct location, using the osinfo-db-import tool. Operating system vendors packaging it, should use the --system argument to install in the primary database location.
$ sudo osinfo-db-import --system osinfo-db-$VERSION.tar.xz
Local system administrators wishing to provide updated content for a host
without conflicting with the OS vendor supplied packages should use the
--local argument to install it in /etc
$ sudo osinfo-db-import --local osinfo-db-$VERSION.tar.xz
Unprivileged users wishing to provide their account with updated content
should use the --user argument to install it
$ osinfo-db-import --user osinfo-db-$VERSION.tar.xz
libosinfo
The libosinfo package provides the C library for querying the database, with ability to use it from non-C languages via GObject Introspection
$ tar zxvf libosinfo-$VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd libosinfo-$VERSION
$ meson setup build -Dprefix=/usr -Dsysconfdir=/etc -Dlocalstatedir=/var
$ ninja -C build
$ sudo ninja -C build install