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Message-ID: <20120215203617.GD11419@gremlin.ru>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:36:17 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: /etc/os-release
On 15-Feb-2012 22:37:09 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > > We should probably add this:
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
> > > even though we have no intent to use systemd in the foreseeable
> > > future.
> > That will be a "spec-only" package...
> > Summary: Operating system identification
> > Name: os-release
> > Provides: /etc/os-release
> We already have a similar file in owl-etc (/etc/owl-release), why
> bother with additional package?
The owl-etc package contains files that are necessary, but there's
no package for them to be in place. In general, there should be 10
files or less:
group
host.conf
inputrc
nsswitch.conf
passwd
protocols
securetty
services
shadow
shells
(I doubt of "shells" - it really should be created|modified when
installing bash and tcsh)
Also, the files that come from owl-etc package are unlikely to be
updated.
Possibly, the /etc/owl-release should be moved to os-release package,
thus allowing us to update this package more frequently (in the most
marginal case that can be performed daily, using crontab job or, as a
more useful option, CVS notification scripts).
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
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