SLES 11 and 12 contained a media.1/build file on each DVD, that contained a string like (SLES 12 example) SLE-12-SP2-Server-DVD-s390x-Build2192. We have some code that parses that value to figure out which distro, version, service pack, and architecture the DVD corresponds to.
On the SLES 15 DVDs, there is no such file. media.1/media appears to have the corresponding content, i.e. /nfs/repo/SLE-15-SP0-pkgs/dvd1 # cat media.1/media SUSE - SLE-15-Packages-s390x-Build668.1-Media1.iso SLE-15-Packages-s390x-Build668.1-Media1.iso 1 While media.1/media did exist on SLES 12 DVDs, the content was much different: cat /nfs/repo/SLE-12-SP2/media.1/media SUSE 20161031195753 2 Before I write code to depend on this, I wanted to make sure that media.1/media is the best way to get the information we're after, programatically, with SLES 15. I see no mention of this change on the release notes page at https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15/ It would not be completely surprising if, along with the os-release file, there was a similar "parser friendly" format on the DVDs that I have not found yet. -- John Arwe z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
