On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 11:43 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 13:44 +0200, Tomas Popela wrote:
>
> > > 2. Have we thought through all cases where the variant now being
> > > 'Workstation Live' rather than 'Workstation' might cause
problems?
> > >
> >
> > What do you mean by that? Can you clarify it a little bit?
>
> Well, just look at the anaconda pull request: we change variant_name
> from "Workstation" to "Workstation Live" in
fedora-silverblue.conf and
> the export of `ANACONDA_PRODUCTVARIANT` from "Workstation" to
> "Workstation Live" in liveinst.
>
> I am not sure of the consequence of these changes, but experience
> teaches me to be nervous any time some kind of significant string just
> ups and changes like that :) I don't know if that string winds up
> embedded somewhere in installed systems, for instance (and thus other
> things might be parsing it), or if other bits of anaconda may care
> about the variant name and haven't yet been changed...
Do dnf or gnome-software upgrades use it? Updates I expect not, but
what determines what new things to include in an edition or product
and what things to remove?
Package groups. So that wouldn't be a problem.
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