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Subject: Re: /etc/os-release
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Chris,

On 07/14/2014 03:54 PM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com 
> <mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/14/2014 03:38 PM, akuster wrote:
>
>         Hello all,
>
>         I noticed some reference to /etc/os-release in some recipes.
>         Where can I
>         find the initial creation of /etc/os-release? If one is not
>         created,
>         would there desire to have one?
>
>     Really?  We reference it in the meta/lib/oe/lsb.py
>     release_dict_file() function to search for LSB information of the
>     host machine to identify the host distro version information.
>
>     Can you be specific about which recipes are using os-release, I
>     did do a search.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure we don't have an os-release recipe in oe-core at all 
> yet, so the file isn't going to exist on target. Mentor has one in 
> meta-mentor at the moment pending time to submit it again / poke on 
> the existing thread. See the thread with the subject "[RFC PATCH 0/2] 
> Add /etc/os-release". It's definitely something we should have, in my 
> opinion.
Yeah, That is what I was thinking of.
Thanks for the pointer.

- Armin

> -- 
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics


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    Chris,<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/14/2014 03:54 PM, Christopher
      Larson wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CABcZANkqBZ3Kw7POOBYQ-1=6rxZSioakS-K7qbS2CcYvp1C_xg@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Saul Wold <span
          dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com" target="_blank">sgw@linux.intel.com</a>&gt;</span>
        wrote:<br>
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            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
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              <div>On 07/14/2014 03:38 PM, akuster wrote:<br>
                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
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                  rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
                  Hello all,<br>
                  <br>
                  I noticed some reference to /etc/os-release in some
                  recipes. Where can I<br>
                  find the initial creation of /etc/os-release? If one
                  is not created,<br>
                  would there desire to have one?<br>
                  <br>
                </blockquote>
              </div>
              Really?  We reference it in the meta/lib/oe/lsb.py
              release_dict_file() function to search for LSB information
              of the host machine to identify the host distro version
              information.<br>
              <br>
              Can you be specific about which recipes are using
              os-release, I did do a search.</blockquote>
          </div>
          <br>
        </div>
        <div class="gmail_extra">I'm pretty sure we don't have an
          os-release recipe in oe-core at all yet, so the file isn't
          going to exist on target. Mentor has one in meta-mentor at the
          moment pending time to submit it again / poke on the existing
          thread. See the thread with the subject "[RFC PATCH 0/2] Add
          /etc/os-release". It's definitely something we should have, in
          my opinion.<br>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    Yeah, That is what I was thinking of. <br>
    Thanks for the pointer.<br>
    <br>
    - Armin<br>
    <br>
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          -- <br>
          Christopher Larson<br>
          clarson at kergoth dot com<br>
          Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus<br>
          Maintainer - Tslib<br>
          Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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