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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release
From:       Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= <berrange () redhat ! com>
Date:       2021-03-09 17:20:30
Message-ID: YEeuXn4rnv08kFHX () redhat ! com
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 05:10:46PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 09. 03. 21 v 15:33 Ben Cotton napsal(a):
> > 
> > This change isn't big — it is simply expanding
> > 
> > * <tt>NAME=Fedora</tt> to <tt>NAME="Fedora Linux"</tt>   and
> > * <tt>PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux [##] ([edition or spin])</tt>
> > 
> > in the file <tt>/etc/os-release</tt>.
> > 
> > The short identifier <tt>ID=fedora</tt> will remain the same, so scripted \
> > interactions should be unaffected.
> 
> python-distro and mock is using this information. I just tested it and this
> change should not change the behavior of this two projects.

libguestfs parses os-release to identify guest OS, but it only uses
the ID field for functional logic, and PRETTY_NAME merely as an
informative value. So there's no risk of regression to virt image
identification that I see.

Regards,
Daniel
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