From e31c6804ca177ab911f6212b34930969b83f2d30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Gallagher Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:19:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release 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 console) whereas VARIANT=Workstation opens many other ports for application compatibility. By adding this patch to the manual pages, we can standardize on a cross-distribution mechanism for accomplishing this. Fedora implementation details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration (David: drop double paranthesis) (cherry picked from commit be7d0048ddda1e994f651e2825f96266d537d10d) Cherry-picked from: be7d004 Resolves: #1222517 --- man/os-release.xml | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 4f57323..4ca2e59 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -273,6 +273,41 @@ + + VARIANT= + + + A string identifying a specific variant or edition of the + operating system suitable for presentation to the user. This + field may be used to inform the user that the configuration of + this system is subject to a specific divergent set of rules or + default configuration settings. This field is optional and may + not be implemented on all systems. + Examples: + VARIANT="Server Edition", + VARIANT="Smart Refrigerator Edition" + Note: this field is for display purposes only. The + VARIANT_ID field should be used for making + programmatic decisions. + + + + + VARIANT_ID= + + + A lower-case string (no spaces or other characters outside of + 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-"), identifying a specific variant or + edition of the operating system. This may be interpreted by + other packages in order to determine a divergent default + configuration. This field is optional and may not be + implemented on all systems. + Examples: + VARIANT_ID=server, + VARIANT_ID=embedded + + + If you are reading this file from C code or a shell script