Fixes#21764.
I think is very simple, but flexible. The date may be set early, for distros
that have a fixed schedule, but it doesn't have to. So for example Debian could
push out an update that sets a few months before the release goes EOL. And
various tools, in particular graphical desktops, can start nagging people to
upgrade a few weeks before the date.
As discussed in the bug, we don't need granularity higher than a day. And this
means that we can use a simple human- and machine-readable format.
I was considering other names, e.g. something with "EOL", but I think that
"SUPPORT_END" is better because it doesn't imply that the machine will somehow
stop working. This is supposed to be an advisory, nothing more.
We didn't actually say that keys should not be repeated. At least the
examples in docs (both python and shell) would do that, and any simple
parser that builds a dictionary would most likely behave the same way.
But let's document this expectation, but also say how to deal with malformed
files.
Python gained support for reading os-release, let's advertise it a bit more.
Our open-coded example is still useful, but let's not suggest it as the
default implementation.
I added quotes around the printed string because it looks a bit better
this way.
This should make things a bit more robust since it ensures system
extension can only applied to the right environments. Right now three
different "scopes" are defined:
1. "system" (for regular OS systems, after the initrd transition)
2. "initrd" (for sysext images that apply to the initrd environment)
3. "portable" (for sysext images that apply to portable images)
If not specified we imply a default of "system portable", i.e. any image
where the field is not specified is implicitly OK for application to OS
images and for portable services – but not for initrds.
This is also not entirely obvious. I think the code I came
up with is pretty elegant ;] The final part of of the code that makes
use of the parsed data is kept very similar to the shell code on purpose,
even though it could be written a bit more idiomatically.
Let's order the fields from the most general to least: os name, os variant, os
version, machine-parseable version details, metadata, special settings. I added
section headers to roughly group the settings. The division is not strict,
because for example CPE_NAME also includes the version, and PRETTY_NAME may
too, but it still makes it easier to find the right name.
Also split out Examples to separate paragraphs:
almost all descriptions had "Example:" at the end, where multiple
examples were listed. Splitting this out to separate paragraphs
makes the whole thing much easier to read.
Add missing markup and punctuation while at it.
About
- If not set, defaults to <literal>NAME=Linux</literal>.
+ If not set, a default of <literal>NAME=Linux</literal> may be used.
and similar changes: in many circumstances, if this is not set, no value should
be used. The fallback mostly make sense when we need to present something to the
user. So let's reword this to not imply that the default is necessary.
This specifes two new optional fields for /etc/os-release:
IMAGE_VERSION= and IMAGE_ID= that are supposed to identify the image of
the current booted system by name and version.
This is inspired by the versioning stuff in
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/683.
In environments where pre-built images are installed and updated as a
whole the existing os-release version/distro identifier are not
sufficient to describe the system's version, as they describe only the
distro an image is built from, but not the image itself, even if that
image is deployed many times on many systems, and even if that image
contains more resources than just the RPMs/DEBs.
In particular, "mkosi" is a tool for building disk images based on
distro RPMs with additional resources dropped in. The combination of all
of these together with their versions should also carry an identifier
and version, and that's what IMAGE_VERSION= and IMAGE_ID= is supposed to
be.
The motivation is that variants of the same distro that share the same compiled
rpm want to customize various aspects of the system, in particular the
hostname. In some sense the default hostname is part of the identity of the
system, so setting it through os-release makes sense. In particular, instead of
setting a default value in /etc/hostname, the appropriate default can be baked
into the image, leaving /etc/hostname for local overrides only.
Why make this a separate field instead of e.g. using NAME from os-release?
NAME is already used for other purposes, and it seems likely that people want
to set those independently.
In order to allow applications to detect the host OS version or other
metadata, ask container managers to expose the os-release files as
read-only bind mounts.
For systemd-nspawn, we will also expose ID, BUILD_ID, VERSION_ID and
VARIANT_ID as lowercase environment variables prefixed by the
container_host_ string.
Given that ANSI_COLOR= is mostly about branding it probably makes sense
to use RGB rather than paletted colors for them, so that the colors
match the project design as close as possible. Hence, provide a 25bit
RGB example for ANSI_COLOR, and update the overall example to something
newer.
Also see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823099
The "include" files had type "book" for some raeason. I don't think this
is meaningful. Let's just use the same everywhere.
$ perl -i -0pe 's^..DOCTYPE (book|refentry) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.[25]//EN"\s+"http^<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"\n "http^gms' man/*.xml
No need to waste space, and uniformity is good.
$ perl -i -0pe 's|\n+<!--\s*SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1..\s*-->|\n<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->|gms' man/*.xml
Strictly speaking, those are not environment variables, but they are compatible
and people think about them like this. Moving them makes them easier to find.
It is very useful for distributions to be able to set a primary
documentation URL in a standard location so that users and
applications on the system can identify it. For example, many
headless systems these days use the "Cockpit" admin console. It
would be ideal if we could specify this location directly in the
os-release file so that any application or service could have a
well-known location for retrieving this and displaying it
appropriately. Users could likewise examine /etc/os-release to
learn this location.
Related: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/10198
Signed-off-by: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>
Docbook styles required those to be present, even though the templates that we
use did not show those names anywhere. But something changed semi-recently (I
would suspect docbook templates, but there was only a minor version bump in
recent years, and the changelog does not suggest anything related), and builds
now work without those entries. Let's drop this dead weight.
Tested with F26-F29, debian unstable.
$ perl -i -0pe 's/\s*<authorgroup>.*<.authorgroup>//gms' man/*xml
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Debian and their derivatives (Ubuntu, Trisquel, etc.) use a code name
for their repositories. Thus record the code name in os-release for
processing.
Closessystemd/systemd#3429
We expect the CPE_NAME to be formatted in URI binding syntax. Make that
clear in the documentation. Furthermore, the CPE-spec has been taken over
by NIST, so adjust the links as well.
Reported by: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
This did not really work out as we had hoped. Trying to do this upstream
introduced several problems that probably makes it better suited as a
downstream patch after all. At any rate, it is not releaseable in the
current state, so we at least need to revert this before the release.
* by adjusting the path to binaries, but not do the same thing to the
search path we end up with inconsistent man-pages. Adjusting the search
path too would be quite messy, and it is not at all obvious that this is
worth the effort, but at any rate it would have to be done before we
could ship this.
* this means that distributed man-pages does not make sense as they depend
on config options, and for better or worse we are still distributing
man pages, so that is something that definitely needs sorting out before
we could ship with this patch.
* we have long held that split-usr is only minimally supported in order
to boot, and something we hope will eventually go away. So before we start
adding even more magic/effort in order to make this work nicely, we should
probably question if it makes sense at all.
In particular, use /lib/systemd instead of /usr/lib/systemd in distributions
like Debian which still have not adopted a /usr merge setup.
Use XML entities from man/custom-entities.ent to replace configured paths while
doing XSLT processing of the original XML files. There was precedent of some
files (such as systemd.generator.xml) which were already using this approach.
This addresses most of the (manual) fixes from this patch:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/Fix-paths-in-man-pages.patch?h=experimental-220
The idea of using generic XML entities was presented here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032240.html
This patch solves almost all the issues, with the exception of:
- Path to /bin/mount and /bin/umount.
- Generic statements about preference of /lib over /etc.
These will be handled separately by follow up patches.
Tested:
- With default configure settings, ran "make install" to two separate
directories and compared the output to confirm they matched exactly.
- Used a set of configure flags including $CONFFLAGS from Debian:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/rules
Installed the tree and confirmed the paths use /lib/systemd instead of
/usr/lib/systemd and that no other unexpected differences exist.
- Confirmed that `make distcheck` still passes.
Some distributions (such as Fedora) are using the VARIANT field to
indicate to select packages which of several default configurations
they should be using. For example, VARIANT=Server provides a
different default firewall configuration (blocking basically
everything but SSH and the management console) whereas
VARIANT=Workstation opens many other ports for application
compatibility.
By adding this patch to the manual pages, we can standardize on a
cross-distribution mechanism for accomplishing this.
Fedora implementation details are available at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration
(David: drop double paranthesis)
