[PATCHES] os-release: Populate VARIANT and VARIANT_ID values

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, May 05, 2015 03:38:47 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> The systemd upstream project has accepted VARIANT as a cross-distribution
> feature, but with a minor change[1] from our original approach: they wanted
> a human-presentable VARIANT and a separate lower-case-only VARIANT_ID
> value. This patch implements this in Fedora to keep us aligned with systemd
> upstream[2].
> 
> Sorry for the churn on this. Fortunately, we only have one package depending
> on this at the moment in Fedora, which I can keep updated. I think it makes
> sense to get this in for Fedora 22 Final so we aren't maintaining different
> approaches in Fedora 21, 22 *and* 23.
> 
> I've got an update to the packaging guidelines prepared[3] as well, which
> I'll submit to FPC as soon as this is approved by rel-eng.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/031346.html
> [2]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be7d0048ddda1e994f65
> 1e2825f96266d537d10d [3]
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASgallagh%2FPer-Product_C
> onfiguration_Packaging_Draft&diff=411881&oldid=410792
Applied and built, f22 update is at 
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-release-22-0.16  there will 
need to be at least one more update to fedora-release for final.  we need to 
disable updates-testing and do the final steps for GA

Dennis
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