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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 /man/os-release.xml | |
| 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)
Diffstat (limited to 'man/os-release.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 4f57323d49..4ca2e59706 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -273,6 +273,41 @@ </para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>VARIANT=</varname></term> + + <listitem><para> + 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: + <literal>VARIANT="Server Edition"</literal>, + <literal>VARIANT="Smart Refrigerator Edition"</literal> + Note: this field is for display purposes only. The + <varname>VARIANT_ID</varname> field should be used for making + programmatic decisions. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>VARIANT_ID=</varname></term> + + <listitem><para> + 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: + <literal>VARIANT_ID=server</literal>, + <literal>VARIANT_ID=embedded</literal> + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> <para>If you are reading this file from C code or a shell script |