Re: [H-source-users] Debian version at h-node

[Antonio Gallo]

> Do we need separate codes for 7.0 and 7.5?  They are different
> installation media for the same release, they are the same after a
> system is updated.  (We don't list e.g. Trisquel 6.0.1 separately or any
> Parabola release medium.)

Ok I will remove  debian_7_5


> Could we use a standard release naming that distros already use?  Recent
> distros (like Debian since Wheezy, or Parabola) have /etc/os_release
> with this information (see [0], [1] for examples).  We could represent
> pairs of (ID, VERSION_ID) data from this file, e.g. writing debian_7 for
> Wheezy (7.0 or 7.5) or parabola for Parabola.  This would make adapting
> h-client for new distros unnecessary if we add a way to get the list of
> accepted distro codes from the server.  (I'm not recommending changing
> existing codes, while we could invent the compatibly-looking debian_6
> for Squeeze.)

Ok this is a good idea. So the h-node code could be debian_6 and
debian_7 and the client can get them from the standard distro name

> Testing and unstable have no VERSION_ID in /etc/os_release.  We could
> have a "debian" code for them (due to the above naming: no version) and
> rely on the kernel/driver version numbers.  It would be like Parabola.

Do you suggest to use the code "debian" for both testing and unstable?