From: Olof Johansson <olof.johansson@axis.com>
To: Dmitry Rozhkov <dmitry.rozhkov@intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] os-release: remove double-quotes around VERSION_ID value
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:54:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160212125458.GA31212@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455279342-5458-1-git-send-email-dmitry.rozhkov@intel.com>
On 16-02-12 14:15 +0200, Dmitry Rozhkov wrote:
> man 5 os-release states that VERSION_ID is
>
> "
> a lower-case string (mostly numeric, no spaces or other
> characters outside of 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-")
> identifying the operating system version
> "
>
> This becomes crucial when ClearLinux's software
> update mechanism is integrated into builds, because
> its client side ignores VERSION_ID's value if it
> doesn't conform the definition.
On Debian, the value is quoted:
VERSION_ID="8"
So I think the documentation refers to the value of VERSION_ID,
with the surrounding quotes not being part of the *value*.
--
olofjn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-12 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 12:15 [PATCH] os-release: remove double-quotes around VERSION_ID value Dmitry Rozhkov
2016-02-12 12:28 ` Joshua G Lock
2016-02-12 13:10 ` Richard Purdie
2016-02-12 22:08 ` Joshua G Lock
2016-02-12 12:54 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2016-02-12 14:21 ` Burton, Ross
2016-02-12 17:14 ` Maciej Borzecki
2016-02-12 21:49 ` Joshua G Lock
2016-02-13 10:01 ` Maciej Borzecki
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