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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 17:52:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 17:52:21 +0100 |
| commit | 74bebb314bceaae7511542c485b1626c1c99a662 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a2edbbda33c487d338221c8b1deecddde67b6a7 /man/os-release.xml | |
| parent | 62ca938d2d217bae94e961be977bbaa2daef3675 (diff) | |
man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlink
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 8ffb5de48d..8cceae1030 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 |