[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add ENVIRONMENT to hostnamectl

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Lennart Poettering 

> On Thu, 10.07.14 18:45, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > >>Seeing this list, why not name the variable Tier= ? Or
> > >>DeploymentTier=, if just Tier is too specific?
> > 
> > This is specific for defining staging environment not their layer so
> > can I simple get an ack nack on the deployment patch and those that
> > also want to be able to define free string in there can just patch
> > it.
> 
> Well, as I mentioned earlier, patch looks generally OK, but I am not OK
> with the strict checking of the value. It sounds Ok to verify that it is
> a single word, from a limited charset, but we are not going to become
> the standardization institute for IT workflows.

Did we agree on the name?

If Environment is out, maybe ProductionLevel or something like that
might fly.  And yes, it should be freeform.

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