[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db PATCH] ubuntu: add Ubuntu 17.10 info

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Felipe Borges <feborges at redhat.com> wrote:
> Could we have the variant data as well?
>
> >From this download endpoint [0] I see that they are named
>
> "Ubuntu 17.10 Desktop" and "Ubuntu 17.10 Server".
>
> For context: we'd like to offer distro downloads from GNOME Boxes New
> machine dialog (wizard) but unfortunately only Fedora has proper
> variant names to identify medias as workstation, server, *netinstall,
> etc... This way, so far, we're showing the real file base name instead
> of a string based on the variant. See in action (video) [1].
>
> I'd be happy to provide patches updating other Operating Systems if
> that's desired.

While I agree that we can make use of variant-id for Ubuntu, and that
does make sense, it wouldn't still solve your issue with Boxes.

So far we only use variant-id for:
- Windows
- Fedora
- Debian

For those, Windows and Fedora seem to be in a good shape. Debian would
require some changes there as having two different variants with the
very same name wouldn't help in your case, right?

Then we'd have to add those to Ubuntu and AltLinux (and as I said
before it's desired).

But then, what would you use for all the other systems?

> Thanks,
> Felipe.
>
> [0] https://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
> [1] https://webmshare.com/XQPma
>
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