Proposal: time to set up the fedora-release-{cloud, workstation, server} subpackages

Sat Jun 21 00:21:19 UTC 2014

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