On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:44:26PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/30/2014 03:39 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 30.06.14 14:59, Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) > > wrote: > > > >> 2) The fedora-release-$PRODUCT package (and possibly %post or > >> systemd snippets therein) will be responsible for the creation > >> and maintenance of /etc/issue, /etc/os-release and > >> /etc/fedora-release-product (note: there is no $ there. That's > >> the literal name. This file will be equivalent to > >> /etc/fedora-release except that it will include the Product > >> name. > > > > Probably quite unrelated to the actual topic of this thread, but I > > just wanted to mention that we intend to move /etc/os-release to > > /usr/lib/os-release (and make /etc/os-release a symlink). We are > > working on making factory reset/stateless stuff work on Fedora, and > > this actually turned out to be one of the surprisingly few > > incomptibilities (the two other being dbus and PAM) we ran into. > > Placing this in /usr/lib is certainly the most appropriate place > > for it, after all it describes what /usr actually contains, not > > what /etc contains... > > > > Anyway, just wanted to mention this. We will soon upload a new > > systemd release to Rawhide, that prepares everything for moving the > > file, will then file a bug against fedora-release asking for the > > file to be moved. > > > Sure, the real-world location of this file is pretty much immaterial, > as long as we get it created properly.
Provided the symlink remains in place for a very long time ... > Any chance that systemd wants to build a hostnamectl-like interface > for setting the os-release values? That would make life a lot easier > on us, as we could reconfigure that file if-and-when a > fedora-release-$PRODUCT package was installed in a %post snippet. As long as you don't require running special programs in order to make changes to what are basically configuration files. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
