Comment # 9 on bug 1088306 from Mikhail Kasimov

(In reply to Richard Brown from comment #8)
> (In reply to Mikhail Kasimov from comment #7)
> > From ML: "We only have few days left to define what is in /etc/os-release
> > for 15 in case it's suboptimal." (c)
> > 
> > So, short summary to discuss and to work out the final decision:
> > 
> > Solution to have for ID= field:
> > ================================
> > 
> > ID="opensuse-leap" | "opensuse-tumbleweed" | "opensuse-leap-%projectname%" |
> > "opensuse-tumbleweed-%projectname%"
> > 
> > ID="sles" | "sled" | "caasp" | "sles-%projectname%" | "sled-%projectname%" |
> > "caasp-%projectname%"
> > ================================
> > 
> > Solution to have for ID_LIKE= field:
> > =====================================
> > 2.1. To add ID_LIKE= field into /etc/os-release file for all commercial SUSE
> > products versions: SLES, SLED. CaaSP and so on to be synchronized with
> > non-commercial ones.
> > 
> > 2.2. For all non-commercial SUSE products versions to define:
> > 
> > ID_LIKE="opensuse"
> > 
> > 2.2. For all commercial SUSE products versions to define:
> > 
> > ID_LIKE="suse"
> > =====================================
> > 
> > Richard, Ludwig,..., -- any reaction, suggestion, decision? Thanks!
> 
> I think it's unreasonable to expect SUSE to change their use of os-release
> this late in their development process.

That sounds sane. Indeed, ML-message bumped me up. :)

> Stefan, Frederic, do I mis-read the
> situation? Ideally this is something we probably should tidy up, as it will
> dramatically ease a lot of painpoints for tools like Saltstack.
> 
> Regardless of the situation in SLE*, I give my +1 to the proposed openSUSE
> changes, though I would prefer ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
> 
> because ID_LIKE="suse" would allow us to provide a single global match for
> "all *SUSE distros" (including SLE*), assuming SLE adopt this approach in
> this future.
> However even then we may well need a more restrictive match for "all
> openSUSE distros" (excluding SLE*), which would be fulfilled by
> ID_LIKE="opensuse"
> 
> Given the os-release standard allows multiple values in this field, we might
> as well use it.

I also was thinking about CPE_NAME= field to parse, but external developers
will pay their attention on the most obvious and generic variations, like ID=
and ID_LIKE= fields, I suppose.

And parsing CPE_NAME= field is extremely lame method, personally, (e.g. cat
/etc/os-release | grep '^CPE_NAME=' | awk -F= '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print
$3,$4,$5,$6}' | sed 's/\"//g'), although CPE_NAME= gives much better
possibilities to match distro. And it is present both in SLE-based and
openSUSE-based distros instead of ID_LIKE= field (see 2.1).