[systemd-devel] Question on os-release

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 30.05.11 15:00, Andreas Jaeger (aj at novell.com) wrote:

> 
> On Monday, May 30, 2011 14:54:54 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:20, Andreas Jaeger <aj at novell.com> wrote:
> > > Looking at the os-release information, I wonder how to encode in the best
> > > way the Beta or Milestone versions of a product, e.g. "openSUSE 12.1
> > > Milestone 1"
> > > 
> > > Is this one added as part of version? e.g.:
> > > VERSION="12.1 Milestone 1 (Codename)"
> > > VERSION_ID="12.1 milestone 1"
> > > 
> > > Or is there some other logic intented to for these?
> > 
> > VERSION looks fine.
> > 
> > VERSION_ID -- usually plain version numbers have no spaces like
> > 3.4beta7, or 3.4-rc3 to make it easy to use it in scripts or create
> > simple-to-handle filenames from it -- but I guess it should all work.
> 
> The documentation says "lower-case string (mostly numeric)" but says nothing 
> about spaces. If I should change it, please update the man page.

Added that now to the man page. 

> I was also thinking whether it makes sense to have a separate SUBVERSION 
> information or whether that was overengineering ;)

Unless we have a really good usecase I would avoid adding this for now.

> openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 will have the os-release now with the above text, 
> let's see whether anything fails ;)

Neat!

Lennart

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