[systemd-commits] man/os-release.xml

Lennart Poettering lennart at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Mar 6 08:52:31 PST 2012


 man/os-release.xml |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 74bebb314bceaae7511542c485b1626c1c99a662
Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date:   Tue Mar 6 17:52:21 2012 +0100

    man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlink

diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 8ffb5de..8cceae1 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@
                 <para>As this file only encodes names and identifiers
                 it should not be localized.</para>
 
+                <para>The file <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> might
+                be a symlink to another file, but it is important that
+                the file is available from earliest boot on, and hence
+                must be located on the root file system.</para>
+
                 <para>For a longer rationale for
                 <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> please refer to
                 the <ulink



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