Enum DistroId 

pub enum DistroId {
    Fedora {
        version: u32,
    },
    FedoraSilverblue {
        version: u32,
    },
    Ubuntu {
        major: u32,
        minor: u32,
    },
    UbuntuCore {
        major: u32,
        minor: u32,
    },
    Debian {
        version: Option<u32>,
    },
    Other {
        id: String,
        version_id: Option<String>,
        id_like: Vec<String>,
    },
}

Typed distro identity derived from OsRelease.

Variants

Fedora

Plain Fedora (Workstation, Server, …).

Fields

version: u32

FedoraSilverblue

Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, or Sericea (immutable desktops).

Fields

version: u32

Ubuntu

Ubuntu LTS or interim.

Fields

major: u32

minor: u32

UbuntuCore

Ubuntu Core (IoT).

Fields

major: u32

minor: u32

Debian

Debian.

Fields

version: Option<u32>

Other

Any other distro — fields forwarded from OsRelease.

Fields

id: String

version_id: Option<String>

id_like: Vec<String>

ID_LIKE tokens, carried through so DistroId::family can make a best-effort derivative-family guess (see that method’s doc comment). Empty when ID_LIKE was absent.

Implementations

impl DistroId

pub fn family(&self) -> DistroFamily

Returns the broad family this distro belongs to.

ID_LIKE fallback for unrecognised derivatives

When self is Other (the running distro’s ID did not match any distro this crate detects directly — e.g. Linux Mint ID=linuxmint, Pop!_OS ID=pop), this consults ID_LIKE before giving up: if it contains "debian" or "ubuntu" the distro routes as DistroFamily::Debian; if it contains "fedora" or "rhel" it routes as DistroFamily::Fedora. This is best-effort derivative support, not full compatibility validation — ID_LIKE is a hint the distro maintainer supplies in /etc/os-release (see os-release(5)), not a guarantee the derivative’s package manager, repositories, or service names are wire-compatible with the parent. Actions may still fail at execution time on a derivative that diverges from its stated parent.

pub fn is_supported(&self) -> bool

Returns true for distros and versions with a shipped action backend.

Support policy:

• Ubuntu 20.04 and later, every release: LTS and interim alike. Ubuntu is the supported platform, so eligibility must not depend on the LTS cadence — the apt, snap, ufw and netplan tooling every action drives is present across those releases.
• Fedora Atomic variants 41+ (Silverblue, Kinoite, and siblings) are eligible too. The rpm-ostree action families work; the difference from Ubuntu is validation effort, not support, because Ubuntu has far more users. See docs/distro-support.md.

Eligibility is not validation coverage

This predicate answers “may SysKnife act on this host at all” — the daemon refuses every mutating action when it is false. It is not a claim that a release has been VM-validated; docs/distro-support.md tracks validation tiers separately, and a release can be supported here while listed as smoke-tested there.

Releases below 20.04 are excluded because they no longer receive Ubuntu security updates. UbuntuCore is excluded for a structural reason rather than an age one: it has no apt and a read-only root, so the Debian-family action set cannot apply. Plain Fedora stays detectable so the planner can explain the gap rather than fail opaquely.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for DistroId

fn clone(&self) -> DistroId

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for DistroId

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Display for DistroId

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Eq for DistroId

impl PartialEq for DistroId

fn eq(&self, other: &DistroId) -> bool

Equality operator ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Inequality operator !=.

impl StructuralPartialEq for DistroId