[Bug 1472288] Re: Add additional attributes in /etc/os-release

[Robie Basak]

I'm just driving past the sponsorship queue.

How can we validate that the CPE_NAME you're adding is definitely the
correct one for us to use in Ubuntu?

Your debdiff doesn't include adding BUILD_ID, so maybe this bug needs
renaming to be specific to CPE_NAME? BUILD_ID sounds like something
based on the installer used - like /var/log/installer/media-info or
/etc/cloud/build.info. But that would mean that /etc/os-release could no
longer be a simple conffile and would have to be managed via a postinst
and ucf or something.

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Title:
  Add additional attributes in /etc/os-release

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please add 'CPE_NAME' and 'BUILD_ID' to /etc/os-release.

  More at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-
  release.html.

  I'm not sure BUILD_ID should be something like 'vivid' etc, but it
  would be a nice use. Or introduce a new attribute/value pair like

  NICKNAME_ID="vivid"

  No rush. Thanks for adopting this convention so quickly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: base-files 7.2ubuntu9
  Uname: Linux 4.1.0-rc5carif-00007-ga8b253b x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Jul  7 10:26:02 2015
  Dependencies:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-04 (245 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: base-files
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-25 (73 days ago)

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