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

[Douglas, William]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

Maybe a little confusing since I spent 15 minutes talking out the
wording to myself =). A system image identifier sounds quite nice
though.