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author | Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> | 2015-04-29 08:19:05 -0400 |
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committer | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> | 2015-05-05 21:07:13 +0200 |
commit | be7d0048ddda1e994f651e2825f96266d537d10d (patch) | |
tree | d7961fca7510f0e8731c5027231a0e560904c8ee /NEWS | |
parent | 2e8522767e27d5686206794c69e0aa95da6e798b (diff) |
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)
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