Prefer the VERSION_CODENAME field of os-release to parsing it from VERSION #230
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Just for the record, we also merged this for F28 and F29, so anyone with a fully up-to-date system will have the correct empty VERSION_CODENAME as well. |
…RSION Preferring the codename field lets distributions accurately encode their codename preferences instead of us having to parse them from the VERSION in ways that may be error prone. This came up in two known instances: * Ubuntu 16.04 has a VERSION string of "16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerces)" and a VERSION_CODENAME of "xenial". distro was mistakenly returning "xenial xerces" because of the way the VERSION string was formatted. * Fedora 21+ do not have a code name. Our parser was returning the variant because Fedora sticks the variant in parenthesis in the VERSION field. Fedora 28+ will add an empty VERSION_CODENAME field so that we can recognize they do not have a code name: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/pull-request/58#
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Updated the commit message to reflect that this PR will correct the codename on Fedora 28 and greater. |
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Hmm. Having given it some more thought, it seems like merging #186 will take a while. I'll merge this, and once the inconsistencies framework is in, we'll move this. |
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Cool. Makes sense to me. |
This was referenced Feb 12, 2022
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Preferring the codename field lets distributions accurately encode their
codename preferences instead of us having to parse them from the VERSION
in ways that may be error prone.
This came up in two known instances:
and a VERSION_CODENAME (Actually UBUNTU_CODENAME because this was before Ubuntu adopted the standard) of "xenial". distro was mistakenly returning
"xenial xerces" because of the way the VERSION string was formatted.
variant because Fedora sticks the variant in parenthesis in the
VERSION field. Fedora
30+28+ will add an empty VERSION_CODENAME field sothat we can recognize they do not have a code name.