On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:29 PM Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:21 PM Jan Kurik <jku...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: Let's Label Our Variants! = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Label_Our_Variants > > > > Owner(s): > > * Matthew Miller <mattdm fedoraproject org> > > * Mohan Boddu <mohanboddu fedoraproject org> > > > > Start using the VARIANT and VARIANT_ID fields in /etc/os-release for > > Spins, Labs and the base container image rather than just the main > > Fedora Editions. > > > > > == Detailed description == > > Right now, we use the VARIANT field (and machine-readable VARIANT_ID) > > in /etc/os-release) only for the main Fedora Editions (and Fedora > > Cloud Base, because of its history as an edition previously). This > > means we can't tell the difference between a KDE desktop spin, a > > container image, or just a generic netinstall constructed into a > > custom system unlike any of our various flavors. Let's start using it > > widely. > > Variant definitions seem like they're really only valid for things like > install media and container images. They express intent well enough for > what the spin or Edition is for, but after installation the package set > deviates widely. We can't assume something that has the Server variant in > /etc/os-release is actually representative of anything Fedora ships as > Server without doing a package comparison along the way. If we're using > variant to count anything, I think we need to scope it only to "initial > installations". > > The fedora-release-$VARIANT subpackage also provides a set of Requires: that indicates a minimum set of packages that must be on the system for it to still call itself "Server Edition". (For example, if you tried to remove the 'cockpit-ws' package, it would result in fedora-release-server being removed and /etc/os-release going back to the non-edition content) So we *can* rely on this indicating a minimum level of functionality on the system.
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