[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add BUILD_ID to os-release

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:54 PM, William Douglas
<william.douglas at intel.com> wrote:
> BUILD_ID is a generic field that can uniquely identify all a
> distributions default packages in a release or image build
> when VERSION is used as broader identifier.
>
> Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas at intel.com>
> ---
>  man/os-release.xml | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
> index 98320ef..e6f31f7 100644
> --- a/man/os-release.xml
> +++ b/man/os-release.xml
> @@ -298,6 +298,17 @@
>                                  <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 packages installed by
> +                                default from a distribution. This field
> +                                is optional. Example:

"Packages"? Sounds a bit confusing, and this will not change when
packages are added or removed, right? You meant more a system image
identifier or something like that?

Kay