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

Pino Toscano ptoscano at redhat.com
Wed Nov 29 15:35:39 UTC 2017


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.

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

-- 
Pino Toscano
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