From: John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:35:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Use os-release preferentially for guest identification.
X-Git-Tag: stable-11.3.5~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a6491b17b2a7a71a60f94c8c9796b93cf914726;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Use os-release preferentially for guest identification.

If the "score" of the Linux guest identification from os-release is
the same as from the LSB score, use the os-release data. The os-release
standard is well established and the LSB is deprecated.
---

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c b/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
index 7e0866699..56708333f 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
+++ b/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
@@ -1939,8 +1939,12 @@ HostinfoBestScore(char *distro,            // OUT:
    int lsbScore = HostinfoLsb(&lsbData);
    int osReleaseScore = HostinfoOsRelease(&osReleaseData);
 
-   /* We prefer the LSB so as to maintain the best backwards compatibility. */
-   if ((lsbScore > 0) && (lsbScore >= osReleaseScore)) {
+   /*
+    * Now that the os-release standard is long stable, choose it over the LSB
+    * standard, all things being the same.
+    */
+
+   if ((lsbScore > 0) && (lsbScore > osReleaseScore)) {
       size_t fields = ARRAYSIZE(lsbFields) - 1;  // Exclude terminator
 
       if (lsbData[0] != NULL) {  // Name