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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-11-22 00:26:08 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-11-22 00:26:08 +0100
commit6bd212771129d00cf7b42d6774a6b81547569384 (patch)
tree1787eab1036eecba325682c6437bc8439f18b537 /man
parentbe8088a2fb41467f66978f86b11bf47c546f24ed (diff)
man: make clear that VERSION and VERSION_ID is not mandatory in os-release.5
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-rw-r--r--man/os-release.xml8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index c6eb28f395..b5f42b2eec 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -167,9 +167,15 @@
<para>If you interpreting this file from code or a
shell script, use the ID and VERSION_ID fields. When
- looking for an OS indetification string for
+ looking for an OS identification string for
presentation to the user use the PRETTY_STRING
field.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that operating system vendors may choose
+ not to provide version information, for example to
+ accomodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION
+ and VERSION_ID may be unset. Applications should not
+ rely on these fields to be set.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>