[Libosinfo] [PATCH] fedora: Add generic entry for future releases

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:35:30PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> 
> This is to ensure that we do recognise medias of future releases of
> Fedora and therefore give apps some clue about what they are dealing
> with and some rough estimate of required resources.
> ---
> 
> I'd like to add similar entries for other OSs too but first I wanted to get
> some feedback on this approach. I think this will help us/users running
> pre-release ISOs.


I'm not sure i like this idea. As it stands each OS instance uniquely
refers to a specific OS release and once matched will never change.
This "wildcard" entry however will have constantly changing match
semantics which I don't find too appealing really. If an application
records this OS ID in some persistent data storage, this will become
invalid over time which I don't think is good.


Daniel
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