Platform Name Updates, master branch (2023.03.31.)
Tweaked the OS name finding code, so that now it would handle /etc/os-release
files on Linux better.
For now the LCG platform name is kept as "centos
" on all EL-like platforms by default. So in LCG nightlies (like dev3) where the x86_64-el9-gcc11-opt
platform name already exists, it will need to be forced explicitly in the build system for now.
What I wanted to be more provocative with is the naming that we would choose for the ATLAS releases themselves. In this MR, on purpose, I chose a naming that would hopefully be controversial enough to trigger a discussion. centos
", "alma
" and "rhel
" names separately for different EL flavours. (And I just now remembered that I should've added Rocky Linux as well...) I don't think we should be doing this, but I thought I'd get better reactions like this.
So... is it time that we would switch to a new platform naming scheme? el
naming in sync.