[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/4] rhel: No need for full version in name

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 09:57:41 UTC 2013


On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 06:20:54AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> 
> The proper full name 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux X' is pretty long enough
> already, there is really no need to make it longer by specifying full
> versions (e.g 6.3 instead of just 6) in it.
> 
> The full version string is available separately for interested apps.
> ---
>  data/oses/rhel.xml.in | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/data/oses/rhel.xml.in b/data/oses/rhel.xml.in
> index 12d4a02..92ccbbc 100644
> --- a/data/oses/rhel.xml.in
> +++ b/data/oses/rhel.xml.in
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  
>    <os id="http://redhat.com/rhel/2.1">
>      <short-id>rhel2.1</short-id>
> -    <_name>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1</_name>
> +    <_name>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2</_name>

This is absolutely not correct. There was never any '2', it was always
called '2.1'.

IMHO the current names are preferrable, since they are unique per
<os> we record.

Daniel
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