Set ISO label name instead of default ISOIMAGE - #888
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Not really sure about this... Daily means its own thing, not necessarily early access. The iso name is also already quite long too imo. @danirabbit since you are working on the new release format, do you think this could help? |
I could set to just "elementary OS" always? Currently the ISO results in the usb stick showing "ISOIMAGE" (or was it "MKIMAGE" something like that) which looks like some default label. |
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We do make daily branch available on builds.elementary.io as "elementary OS Early Access". If we have 32 characters maybe the version too: "elementary OS daily 26.09+231233" fits exactly. Stable cutting off at + doesn't seem to bad, as they likely won't be built as often. |
So we no longer want to use the wording "Early Access" ? That makes this PR simpler, I can just label it Do we want to include just the YY.MM portion too? |
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I do feel like knowing the version without needing to boot it is quite useful. |
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How about keep it simple? Label it "elementary OS YY.MM ARCH" without the |
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Just copying some conversation from discord: My understanding is this only shows up when you mount the install disk in a file manager for example? So I guess the decision we're making at that time is if this is a disk that needs to be formatted? If this were showing in the bootloader I would say version and channel is important and arch probably not important But, since we're always only one update away from latest, version might not be that important in the case of just naming the physical drive itself. But arch and channel seems like it would be important if you're trying to figure out if you want to write over this drive with a new image An i understanding correctly? |
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Great, thank you all, will merge this. I'm unsure whether the mkrescue/xorriso will only warn or fail if the limit is breached later on (in case there are new longer profile/arch values added) but that's a one-liner fix that can be added later if the build breaks. |
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Set ISO label to
elementary OS 26.09 x86-64a.k.a"elementary OS ${DATE:0:5} ${ARCH}".EDIT:
The final choice (for this PR at least) is in aafeacb to set the label like
elementary OS stable x86-64a.k.a."elementary OS ${PROFILE} ${ARCH}"which fits in the 32-char limit for all current arch and profile options.I'm unsure whether the mkrescue/xorriso will warn or fail if the limit is breached later on (in case there are new longer profile/arch values) but that's a one-liner fix that can be added later if something breaks.