[ovirt-devel] Adding /etc/ovirt-release

[Fabian Deutsch]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> I'd like to make it easier to discover what oVirt release is
>> installed, and what potential variant (i.e Node) is used.
>> Currently we are using some Node specific files to identify this
>> "variant".
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>> With this patch [0] I'm suggesting to add the /etc/ovirt-release file,
>> with the following contents:
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>> NAME=oVirt
>> ID=ovirt
>> VERSION="4.0 (master)"
>> VERSION_ID=4.0
>> PRETTY_NAME="oVirt 4.0"
>> CPE_NAME="cpe:/a:ovirtproject:ovirt:4.0:dev"
>> VARIANT=""
>> VARIANT_ID=
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>> The variables are close to what is used by Fedora and CentOS.
>> The variant field is left empty by default, but can be populated with
>> defined values for variants like Node or i.e. a container variant.
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> what if multiple ovirt-releaseX are installed?
> for example, upgrading from 3.5 to 3.6 keeping rollback support during the
> upgrade requires to have ovirt-release35 and ovirt-release36 installed side
> by side.

Does the oVirt specific rpm based delivery allow rolling back?
Could you point me to that logic?

A general approach could be to make /etc/ovirt-release a symlink.

Right now I'd even consider to move this file to
/usr/lib/ovirt-release, this will be much better suioted for image
based deliveries …

- fabian

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>> A CPE [1] is also included for convenience.
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>> Thoughts?
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>> - fabian
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>> [0] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/46067/
>> [1] http://cpe.mitre.org/
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Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
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