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 1.1.0 (gpg) October 26th, 2016
Changes in this release include
- Add –license option to osinfo-db-export
- Fix license file to refer to GPL, not LGPL
- Fix typos in help output
- List libarchive as pre-req in README
Libosinfo library
libosinfo 1.0.0 (gpg) Friday October 7th, 2016
Changes in this release include:
- Update loader to follow new layout for external
database - Move all database files into separate osinfo-db package
- Move osinfo-db-validate into osinfo-db-tools package
Historical releases
All source archives for the previous releases are available for download at
https://releases.pagure.org/libosinfo/
Previous release notes are available at
https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/libosinfo/blob/master/NEWS
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 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var $ make $ sudo make 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 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var $ make $ sudo make install