Best way to install guest when it is not listed in output of osinfo-query os
Daniel P. Berrangé
berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 4 10:46:08 UTC 2022
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 02:19:50PM +0100, john doe wrote:
> On 12/21/2021 10:41 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:59:15PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> > > Any reason for debian not having an -unknown version like lot of the
> > > other distros?
> >
> > I don't think there's a specific reason for that, it's probably just
> > a matter of nobody thinking of it until now :)
> >
> > In addition to that, considering that there already entries for
> > Debian testing and Fedora Rawhide, adding one for Debian unstable
> > might make sense too.
> >
>
> That would be lovely if 'debian-unknown' and 'debian11' could be
> available on Bullseye!!! :)
>
> Is it intentional that the Debian URLs in the output of 'osinfo-query
> os' point to 'debian.org/debian/VERSION_ID' instead of
> 'debian.org/releases/VERSION_ID|VERSION_CODENAME'?
The URLs are not a pointer to any specific resource. They are just an
arbitrarily invented unique identifier & once released, we must never
change any URL. By convention we pick a short "product name" as the
first path component, because over time vendors have introduced new
or parallel products. Thus '/releases/' would not be future proof.
As an example, Fedora has both the traditional 'fedora' OS releases
and 'silverblue'.
Regards,
Daniel
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