On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:12 PM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> said:
> > This change isn't big — it is simply expanding
> >
> > * <tt>NAME=Fedora</tt> to <tt>NAME="Fedora Linux"</tt>  and
> > * <tt>PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux [##] ([edition or spin])</tt>
> >
> > in the file <tt>/etc/os-release</tt>.
>
> I have seen third-party install scripts and such that parse that file
> and look for "Fedora" to take actions/set variables/etc. for Fedora
> Linux.  You can say "we don't support third-party anything", but it's
> still going to cause issues for some users.
>
>
Do they parse the NAME field instead of the ID field? All the times I have
seen people trying to identify the OS they use the ID field, which this
change is going to leave alone - so I would imagine that this will have a
very low impact on doing system ID.

-Ian
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