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

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

Just for the record, I ended up discussing this with Felipe on #boxes channel.
So, for systems where the variant-id doesn't make sense, GNOME Boxes
could simply use "name version (arch)".

Felipe will submit patches for the variant-id, basically to cover
Ubuntu, AltLinux and also fixing the name in the Debian case.

Thanks!

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