[opensuse] /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-1.3°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;) also /etc/SuSE-release is not in exactly the same format as os-release(5) Anyway.. it is apparently not going away yet..so keep calm and enjoy the show. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
We've seen such comment before :-( Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust. hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
Yes, but they aren't being upgraded, for instance because they are really mostly meant for SLES.
We've seen such comment before :-(
Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust.
The user is stuck when the 3rd party tools aren't being updated though. But I know, in this distro we don't care much about our poor users :-( -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-1.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Dienstag, 26. November 2013 09:24:23 Per Jessen wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
Yes, but they aren't being upgraded, for instance because they are really mostly meant for SLES.
We've seen such comment before :-(
Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust.
The user is stuck when the 3rd party tools aren't being updated though. But I know, in this distro we don't care much about our poor users :-(
Hey, when this happens, give me 30 minutes (including build and publish) to create a compatibility package, that creates this file dynamically on installation.. ;-) I'm doing much more worse things all the time.. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
On Dienstag, 26. November 2013 09:24:23 Per Jessen wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
Yes, but they aren't being upgraded, for instance because they are really mostly meant for SLES.
We've seen such comment before :-(
Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust.
The user is stuck when the 3rd party tools aren't being updated though. But I know, in this distro we don't care much about our poor users :-(
Hey, when this happens, give me 30 minutes (including build and publish) to create a compatibility package, that creates this file dynamically on installation.. ;-)
Yep, that would be the right approach. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/26/2013 03:24 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
Yes, but they aren't being upgraded, for instance because they are really mostly meant for SLES.
We've seen such comment before :-(
Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust.
The user is stuck when the 3rd party tools aren't being updated though. But I know, in this distro we don't care much about our poor users :-(
I disagree, we do care. You could also make the same statement about the third-party tools that still use this SuSE-release. They had plenty of time to adjust to using lsb_release for example, and they'll have plenty of time to adjust to using os-release. More likely than not they will not adjust until the file actually goes away. Making changes pre-actively is not necessarily a common practice, unfortunately. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;) also /etc/SuSE-release is not in exactly the same format as os-release(5)
Anyway.. it is apparently not going away yet..so keep calm and enjoy the show.
Thanks :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.3°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-11-26 08:30, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;) also /etc/SuSE-release is not in exactly the same format as os-release(5)
Third party tools used a file that has been there for generations. Even if they are broken, it is users who suffer if they break even more because a trivially small file is removed.
Anyway.. it is apparently not going away yet..so keep calm and enjoy the show.
Make that "yet" about a decade. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKUnqYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UT1gCfTHkQowkoKfMWFiD1W2uf7sRo lNMAnjoFtnmkSHge9Qsr2Q7ZejYOTHdZ =hkK0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R. -
Cristian Rodríguez -
Hans Witvliet -
Hans-Peter Jansen -
Per Jessen -
Robert Schweikert