[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Mon Feb 23 06:29:14 EST 2009
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:44, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:02:53AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>The question is, when I download "latest", and find a bug to report,
>>>how do I find out which SoaS image this was? "About my laptop" is
>>>unhelpful.
>>>
>>>I guess there needs to be a version file somewhere.
>>
>> I recommend that you treat Soas as a distribution on its own, and
>> make sure `lsb_release --all` reports info about your distro, not the
>> one you forked from. And that OLPC does the same with the XO images.
>>
>> And I recommend that Sugar - if it doesn't already - gets its "About
>> this system" from lsb_release.
>
>Actually, the build number in the control panel is retrieved from
>/boot/olpc_build, /etc/redhat-release and lsb_release -ds.
Ok.
Do you want that to stay that way (i.e. all distros need to include
/etc/redhat-release) or do you agree that in the future this should be
changed to something not distro-specific?
- Jonas
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