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

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Pino Toscano <ptoscano at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:43:28 CET Felipe Borges 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.
>
> That is a good thing to improve.  IMHO it would be good to do that
> for more versions of Ubuntu at once, for example for the LTSes.

Indeed. Would make sense to have "Desktop", "Server", "Desktop LTS"
and "Server LTS".

>
> Regardless, those additions could be done on top of my patch, which
> at least makes Ubuntu 17.10 available as distribution in osinfo-db.

Agreed and ack! (Also for the patch containing the test data)

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