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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-03-06 17:52:21 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-03-06 17:52:21 +0100
commit74bebb314bceaae7511542c485b1626c1c99a662 (patch)
tree4a2edbbda33c487d338221c8b1deecddde67b6a7 /man
parent62ca938d2d217bae94e961be977bbaa2daef3675 (diff)
man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlink
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-rw-r--r--man/os-release.xml5
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