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authorWilliam Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>2013-03-25 14:07:49 -0700
committerAuke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>2013-03-27 11:15:07 -0700
commitf0b647223ded79068dd1d92da329d2ea95527590 (patch)
tree3a43182902cc9e7eaf007440acf3b18ebbd1361c
parent464264ac5a35b655065c5d95b8d8ffbbc7ff3bcf (diff)
man/os-release: Add BUILD_ID field
BUILD_ID is a fairly generic field used to identify the system image that was used to install the distribution.
-rw-r--r--man/os-release.xml22
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diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 98320efe31..45babd61b9 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -298,6 +298,28 @@
<literal>BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>BUILD_ID=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>A string uniquely
+ identifying the system image used as
+ the origin for a distribution (it is
+ not updated with system updates). The
+ field can be identical between
+ different VERSION_IDs as BUILD_ID is
+ an only a unique identifier to a
+ specific version. Distributions that
+ release each update as a new version
+ would only need to use VERSION_ID as
+ each build is already distinct based
+ on the VERSION_ID. This field is
+ optional. Example:
+ <literal>BUILD_ID="2013-03-20.3"</literal>
+ or
+ <literal>BUILD_ID=201303203</literal>.
+
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>