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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 13 dec. 2013, om 17:14 heeft Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> het volgende geschreven:

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> 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.

Angstrom has both lsb_release and os-release in its 'angstrom-release' package. It looks like this release could provide os-release in a more generic way.

regards,

Koen