Bug 733117

Summary:	Please support /etc/os-release
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Component:	fedora-release	Assignee:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	dennis, rjones
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Description Lennart Poettering 2011-08-24 19:39:17 UTC

Via systemd we are currently are trying to push distros to support a file /etc/os-release superceding the various /etc/fedora-release files (and equivalents) the various distros use. /etc/os-release is supposed to be the one-stop file that everybody can just rely on is there and includes both human-readable and machine-parseable data, and is extensible for additional keys. Basically the idea here is to keep the promise lsb_release tried to make except that it is simple and just works, and does not require running shell scripts and such.

So far many smaller distros have adopted it and SUSE has as well. It would be great if Fedora would adopt this file, too.

/etc/os-release can be supported in addition to /etc/fedora-release in order to keep compatibility.

/etc/os-release is fully documented in os-release(5):

http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/os-release.html

A proposed file would look like this:

NAME=Fedora
VERSION="16 (Verne)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=17
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 16 (Verne)"
ANSI_COLOR=0;34

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2012-02-02 22:44:02 UTC

Any update on this? SUSE and a lot of other distros now support this, and so should we, really.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2012-02-08 15:49:57 UTC

Ping!

Comment 3 Dennis Gilmore 2012-02-08 17:50:02 UTC

added in fedora-release-18-0.1 and fedora-release-17-0.7

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-02-09 08:41:13 UTC

According to my check script, /etc/os-release now exists
in two packages (systemd & fedora-release), although it's
a %ghost file in systemd.

Is this intentional?  Can it be removed from systemd.spec now
that it's in fedora-release?

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2012-02-09 20:29:45 UTC

Richard, you are right. Will remove it now from systemd. Thanks!