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| author | Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> | 2016-06-06 22:05:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-06-06 22:05:29 +0200 |
| commit | 646b997c118e261c5ececc434dd40d0dbdbac4d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1389c1de6ad776cd28cdfb9297335dab609e8ae7 /man | |
| parent | bdc49d4491da97f7821c34740bcfd26d472085a0 (diff) | |
os-release: Add VERSION_CODENAME field (#3445)
Debian and their derivatives (Ubuntu, Trisquel, etc.) use a code name
for their repositories. Thus record the code name in os-release for
processing.
Closes systemd/systemd#3429
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 4557abc4a3..99bbb61004 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -176,6 +176,22 @@ </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term><varname>VERSION_CODENAME=</varname></term> + + <listitem><para> + A lower-case string (no spaces or other characters outside of + 0–9, a–z, ".", "_" and "-") identifying the operating system + release code name, excluding any OS name information or + release version, and suitable for processing by scripts or + usage in generated filenames. This field is optional and may + not be implemented on all systems. + Examples: + <literal>VERSION_CODENAME=buster</literal>, + <literal>VERSION_CODENAME=xenial</literal> + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> <term><varname>VERSION_ID=</varname></term> <listitem><para>A lower-case string (mostly numeric, no spaces |