On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:12:47AM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 06/18/2014 10:15 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I also suggest that /etc/os-release be switched using the alternatives
> system (
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives), with the
> variant in either the VERSION field (VERSION="21 (Cloud)") or a new
> os-release field which we would propose -- probably VARIANT.
>
> I suppose /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net would also be candidates for
> alternatives.
I would like to hear what Lennart Poettering and other systemd folks
have to say about /etc/os-release handling in the light of the stateless
systems blog post from yesterday:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html This shouldn't change anything.
The file will be installed in
/usr/lib/os-release, that's all.
Zbyszek