On Mon, 30.05.11 15:00, Andreas Jaeger ([email protected]) wrote: > > On Monday, May 30, 2011 14:54:54 Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:20, Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> 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. > 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. > openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 will have the os-release now with the above text, > let's see whether anything fails ;) Neat! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
