[yocto] [OE-core] /etc/os-release
akuster
akuster at mvista.com
Mon Jul 14 16:05:52 PDT 2014
Chris,
On 07/14/2014 03:54 PM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com
> <mailto:sgw at 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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