On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:38:25AM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Ed, > > On Friday 20 March 2015 13:22:50 Ed Bartosh wrote: > > /etc/SuSE-release should not be parsed to obtain release info > > > > Here is the quote from /etc/SuSE-release: > > /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, > > use /etc/os-release instead > > > > All recent OpenSUSE versions already have /etc/os-release and > > oe.lsb/release_dict_file function already parses it. > > > > Current implementation of release_dict_file returns different values > > when parsing /etc/SuSE-release and /etc/os-release. This is one more > > advantage of getting rid of parsing /etc/SuSE-release. > > How long ago did OpenSuSE start including /etc/os-release? My concern is if > someone did happen to run on an older OpenSuSE release and then submit a bug > report with an attached log, we'd rather see the actual version rather than > "Unknown". If that's a possible scenario, we might want to just swap the > blocks around so that /etc/os-release is looked for first. > I've checked opensuse versions starting from 12.3, which was released 2 years ago and became OOL in Jan 2015. If you think it's not enough I can check 12.2 and 12.1 or swap the blocks as you've suggested.
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