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

[Miloslav Trmač]

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> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:38:15AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >  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....

It really seems to me that it’s way too early to generalize this into a general mechanism we don’t really need, but would have to keep supporting for years.  AFAICT a (probably Fedora-specific) patch to login(1) that specifically hard-coded detection of a Fedora product, and added an appropriate message in to contents of /etc/issue, would be a smaller maintenance burden than any of the generic proposals, would work just as well, and would give us a full freedom to change our mind about the implementation later.
    Mirek