Comment # 1 on bug 995549 from Michael Chang

(In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #0)
> grub2-default-distributor.patch uses NAME and VERSION from /etc/os-release
> to construct the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR variable. With recent changes to
> /etc/os-release for TW the version now actually has the snapshot number.
> That number changes every day. Since the grub config isn't updated on every
> snapshot update the version listed in the bootloader might be outdated.
> I'd suggest to use PRETTY_NAME from /etc/os-release instead.

I think the text of varying numbers may also make openQA needles harder to
match.

A question, should SLE and openSUSE-Leap all change together to use
$PRETTY_NAME? I think $PRETTY_NAME was once before considered but rejected
while deciding which field to use .. (the discussion was in SLE, but may not
apply for openSUSE).

CC Thorsten and Josef.

> btw, I think the grub_util_default_distributor function is unnecessarily
> complex. According to the specification
> (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html) no shell
> special features are supported on /etc/os-release, so the file can be parsed
> directly, there is no need to spawn a shell.

Thanks for the information, yes it makes sense and I will do it.