[OE-core] [RFC 1/2] os-release: add new operating system identification recipe

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>wrote:

> On 12/13/13, 8:56 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
>> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
>>
>> This is needed by systemd, among other useful applications. All fields are
>> metadata driven, and initial values come from our DISTRO variables.
>>
>
> I thought there was a part of the lsb-release recipe that did this same
> thing.
>
> It doesn't set the 'os-release' file, but the 'lsb-release' file.  Maybe
> it would make sense to consolidate this stuff into a base-file-...


Yeah, that’s part of why I posted this as an RFC, there’s this question of
whether such things should just get folded into base-files, or stay
separate. I don’t have a very strong opinion on it either way, myself.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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