[systemd-devel] Question on os-release

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 16.06.11 11:58, Andreas Jaeger (aj at novell.com) wrote:

> > > > 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.
> 
> So, VERSION_ID should be:
> "12.1milestone1"?

Sounds good, yes.

> 
> > > 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.
> 
> The handling of milestones, alphas, betas, rcs - see the above.

But is that really a "subversion"? At least to me a subversion is more
like an incremental upgrade to a release, but a beta/milestone is more
like a pre-version, right? In order to not having to think about too
much about pre-versions vs. subversions I'd rather stay out of the game
as long as we can... ;-)

Lennart

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