fedora-release-$PRODUCT, /etc/issue, /etc/os-release, Per-Product Configs and more!

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:38:15AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>  Note that agetty(8) allows to keep /etc/issue distribution
>  independent and it reads all necessary information from
>  /etc/os-release to generate the final pre-login message. All you need
>  is to create /etc/issue with \S sequences, for example:
>    \S{PRETTY_NAME}
>    \S{HOME_URL}
>    Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
>  .. so /etc/issue does not have to be maintained within packages like
>  fedora-release-$PRODUCT or so.

Oh, that's nice. I just learned yesterday that it has all of those fancy new
escapes.

>  It would be really really nice have only *one* file (/etc/os-release)
>  that contains operating system identification data. The mess like
>  /etc/fedora-release and /etc/redhat-release should be deprecated.

Yeah. The tricky thing is providing "sub-release" information when there's
just one file. Maybe something like "/etc/os-release.d/" could solve the
problem....

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader