Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-05-05 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > - Original Message - >> From: "Lennart Poettering" >> To: "Stephen Gallagher" >> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 10:13:35 AM >> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Ad

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-05-05 Thread Stephen Gallagher
- Original Message - > From: "Lennart Poettering" > To: "Stephen Gallagher" > Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 10:13:35 AM > Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for > /etc/os-release > > On Tue, 05.05.15 08:52, Step

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-05-01 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 08:19 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Some distributions (such as Fedora) are using the VARIANT field to > indicate to select packages which of several default configurations > they should be using. For example, VARIANT=Server provides a > different default firewall configur

[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-04-29 Thread Stephen Gallagher
Originally, I was only thinking that the parseable field mattered, but you're right. There's value in having a human-presentable field here as well. Updated patch attached. ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.f

[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-04-29 Thread Stephen Gallagher
Some distributions (such as Fedora) are using the VARIANT field to indicate to select packages which of several default configurations they should be using. For example, VARIANT=Server provides a different default firewall configuration (blocking basically everything but SSH and the management cons

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-04-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 28.04.15 17:10, Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) wrote: > + > +VARIANT= > + > + > +A string identifying a specific variant or edition of the > +operating system. This may be interpreted by other packages in > +order to determine a diverg

[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

2015-04-28 Thread Stephen Gallagher
Some distributions (such as Fedora) are using the VARIANT field to indicate to select packages which of several default configurations they should be using. For example, VARIANT=Server provides a different default firewall configuration (blocking basically everything but SSH and the management cons