On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:54:39PM -0800, vijaikumar....@gmail.com wrote:
> Since ISAR is providing that information by default, and people use it based
> on upstream trust, we should probably have that information in a way that it
> is usable even after an upgrade. Or not provide it at all. I am more
> inclined to
> base-files approach here since we know that /etc/os-release is maintained
> by it.
> Since providing another file is not the recommended way, as per Debian, we
> should probably provide the isar information in /etc/os-release through
> custom
> base-files in upstream isar for reference.
>
> Do you feel it is a strong enough reason to have custom base-files in ISAR?

Clean or nothing -- fair enough. I don't have strong feelings that we should
provide that information at all :) , but I admit it is handy after we have it.
As long as Isar doesn't become a distro, I'm fine with providing base-files as
it cleans things up, especially long-term (updates).

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.