[systemd-commits] man/os-release.xml

Auke-Jan Kok auke at kemper.freedesktop.org
Wed Mar 27 11:15:37 PDT 2013


 man/os-release.xml |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit f0b647223ded79068dd1d92da329d2ea95527590
Author: William Douglas <william.douglas at intel.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 25 14:07:49 2013 -0700

    man/os-release: Add BUILD_ID field
    
    BUILD_ID is a fairly generic field used to identify the system image
    that was used to install the distribution.

diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 98320ef..45babd6 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -298,6 +298,28 @@
                                 <literal>BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"</literal></para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>BUILD_ID=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>A string uniquely
+                                identifying the system image used as
+                                the origin for a distribution (it is
+                                not updated with system updates). The
+                                field can be identical between
+                                different VERSION_IDs as BUILD_ID is
+                                an only a unique identifier to a
+                                specific version. Distributions that
+                                release each update as a new version
+                                would only need to use VERSION_ID as
+                                each build is already distinct based
+                                on the VERSION_ID. This field is
+                                optional. Example:
+                                <literal>BUILD_ID="2013-03-20.3"</literal>
+                                or
+                                <literal>BUILD_ID=201303203</literal>.
+
+                                </para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
 
                 </variablelist>
 



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