<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Johann, The description for /etc/os-release makes only this (quite informal) statement about the release code name: VERSION: A string identifying the operating system version, excluding any OS name information, possibly including a release code name, and suitable for presentation to the user. This does not even recommend what the syntax should be. VERSION_ID, VARIANT_ID are definitely out of question for putting it there, and IMO also NAME and VARIANT. The statement about having it in PRETTY_NAME is even more informal than the one for VERSION. Bottom line is for someone deciding to add a release code name, there is room for doing that. However, I'm on the parsing side of this. From that perspective, this is not a question about having a possibility for putting the release code name somewhere, but where to expect it. A standard field named CODENAME is obviously superior compared to putting the release code name somewhere, even if there is a recommendation on the syntax (that people can and will choose not to follow, e.g. for compatibility reasons). Also, adding a new field is a backwards compatible change for distributions, whereas changing the value of an existing field may not be (depending on the existing parsing code). Even lsb_release, as little as it provides, has a code name field described. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/lsbrelease.html">http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/lsbrelease.html</a> For distributions that have /etc/os-release and do not have lsb_release (there seem to be many of them), this missing field is a reason still to parse the one-line distro files. Andy <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/13/2016 12:04 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:56962F42.7030209@gmail.com" type="cite">Use the existing fields as in NAME= VERSION= ID= VERSION_ID= PRETTY_NAME= VARIANT= VARIANT_ID= Adding additional codename field serves no purpose or value which the previous fields do not already cover. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>