On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 09:08:20 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 30.05.11 15:00, Andreas Jaeger (a...@novell.com) wrote: > > On Monday, May 30, 2011 14:54:54 Kay Sievers wrote: > > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:20, Andreas Jaeger <a...@novell.com> wrote: > > > > Looking at the os-release information, I wonder how to encode in the > > > > best way the Beta or Milestone versions of a product, e.g. "openSUSE > > > > 12.1 Milestone 1" > > > > > > > > Is this one added as part of version? e.g.: > > > > VERSION="12.1 Milestone 1 (Codename)" > > > > VERSION_ID="12.1 milestone 1" > > > > > > > > Or is there some other logic intented to for these? > > > > > > VERSION looks fine. > > > > > > VERSION_ID -- usually plain version numbers have no spaces like > > > 3.4beta7, or 3.4-rc3 to make it easy to use it in scripts or create > > > simple-to-handle filenames from it -- but I guess it should all work. > > > > The documentation says "lower-case string (mostly numeric)" but says > > nothing about spaces. If I should change it, please update the man page. > > Added that now to the man page.
So, VERSION_ID should be: "12.1milestone1"? > > I was also thinking whether it makes sense to have a separate SUBVERSION > > information or whether that was overengineering ;) > > Unless we have a really good usecase I would avoid adding this for now. The handling of milestones, alphas, betas, rcs - see the above. > > openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 will have the os-release now with the above > > text, let's see whether anything fails ;) > > Neat! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj@{novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel