Comment # 8 on bug 1088306 from Richard Brown

(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. 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.