Hey all!

Patch for the Fedora template.  Several things...

1) A month or so ago, I floated an idea of adding an option for utsname
which Serge seemed to like but we let it float for more feedback (none
came).

2) In private mail to Serge and Stéphane I mentioned the idea of using
the CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) for host distro and version
identification.  I heard back from Serge but not Stéphane.  CPE is a
standard promoted by NIST and Mitre (along with CVE and CVSS) as part of
the security community as a common identification mechanism.  It's
supported by RedHat based distros and many others (notable exception
Ubuntu).  I've patched the Fedora template to parse first
the /etc/os-release file or, alternatively, the /etc/system-release-cpe
file for the distro ID and version instead of the human
readable /etc/redhat-release.  There's more that can be done with that
in the realm of cross distro container builds, I suspect.

3) At the time of working on 1&2 I noticed that the retry logic in the
Fedora template just didn't seem right.  I believe I posted a message
asking for clarification on that behavior.  A recently post in the
-users list indicating that someone could not create a Fedora 19
container (because the release ver string was 19-2 and the template was
only looking for -1) prompted me to rework the retry logic for handling
the mirror list and servers as well as revamp the download logic to
properly identify the correct release package.

The patch for all of the above is attached below the jump.  It's been
tested on Fedora 17 through Fedora 19 hosts and has created containers
for F11, F12, F13, F14, F16, F17, F18, and F19.  F15 failed for rpm
dependency issues that are not worth fixing (IMHO).

Regards,
Mike
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