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From: "Alexander Todorov" <atodorov(a)redhat.com>
Additionally Dan Callaghan commented on Gerrit:
>
> Yes it sounds like this is a good time to re-think the template vars for
> workflow-installer-test. It would be really good to have them more
> consistent with the server side templates.
I don't know how server side templates look like so Dan please comment how
can we make both sides more consistent ?
For Beaker 0.18, Dan changed the server side templates to largely be OS feature based
rather than version based:
https://beaker-project.org/docs/whats-new/release-0.18.html#better-suppor...
Previously, Beaker's server-side templates would treat any distro as RHEL 6, which was
no longer a viable assumption once RHEL and CentOS 7 had been released.
It seems to me that same logic applies for client side templates as well: anything based
on checking distro names and versions is always going to struggle to handle derived
distros correctly, while checking for the relevant OS features works just as well for
derivatives as it does for the main trio of Fedora/RHEL/CentOS.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services
Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane
HSS Provisioning Architect