[systemd-devel] Question on os-release

[Andreas Jaeger]

On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:43:01 PM Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I get our config changed.

> > > > 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

Yeah but both might be the same problem.

> much about pre-versions vs. subversions I'd rather stay out of the game
> as long as we can... ;-)

Understandable. So far I see few users of this, so let's leave it until we 
find users that get hit by it...

Andreas
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