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2015-01-15os-release: Add PRIVACY_POLICY_URLBastien Nocera
2014-12-25doc: os-release: mention all shell characters that must be escapedMantas Mikulėnas
Since the manpage already talks about shell-compatibility, it should be more accurate about what needs to be escaped and how.
2014-10-08note on relative symlink in os-releaseRahul Sundaram
2014-06-28doc: grammatical correctionsJan Engelhardt
2014-06-13os-release: define /usr/lib/os-release as fallback for /etc/os-releaseLennart Poettering
The file should have been in /usr/lib/ in the first place, since it describes the OS container in /usr (and not the configuration in /etc), hence, let's support os-release files in /usr/lib as fallback if no version in /etc exists, following the usual override logic. A prior commit already enabled tmpfiles to create /etc/os-release as a symlink to /usr/lib/os-release should it be missing, thus providing nice compatibility with applications only checking in /etc. While it's probably a good idea if all apps check both locations via a fallback logic, it is only necessary in the early boot process, as long as the /etc/os-release symlink has not been restored, in case we boot with an empty /etc.
2013-09-12man: wording and grammar updatesJan Engelhardt
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma placement fixes… Highligts in this particular commit: - the "unsigned" type qualifier is completed to form a full type "unsigned int" - alphabetic -> lexicographic (that way we automatically define how numbers get sorted)
2013-07-16man: use HTTPS links for links that support itJason St. John
2013-07-02man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pagesJason St. John
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas, capitalization, spelling, etc. To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were revised. [zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
2013-03-27man/os-release: Add BUILD_ID fieldWilliam Douglas
BUILD_ID is a fairly generic field used to identify the system image that was used to install the distribution.
2012-10-16Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."Andrew Eikum
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd. So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before in my English-mother-tongue life. Some quick Googling turned up a reference: <http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html> I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g. "the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-, respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence "Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker. This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully, grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing "resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably just do in the future. The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I don't feel privileged to correct. Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
2012-09-13docs: typo fixes in logind.conf.xml and os-release.xmlThomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54501
2012-04-12relicense to LGPLv2.1 (with exceptions)Lennart Poettering
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+. Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within systemd. The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT. The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
2012-03-06man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fieldsLennart Poettering
2012-03-06man: document how os-release(5) may be extended by OS vendorsLennart Poettering
2012-03-06man: fix typoLennart Poettering
2012-03-06man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlinkLennart Poettering
2012-03-06man: add URL field definitions to os-release(5)Lennart Poettering
As requested by Raphaël Hertzog from the Debian project, include information about the home page and support/bug report pages in /etc/os-release.
2012-03-06man: add ID_LIKE definition to os-release(5)Lennart Poettering
As requested by Raphaël Hertzog from the Debian project, encode derivative information in /etc/os-release.
2012-02-14man: define more precisely the format of /etc/os-releaseLennart Poettering
2012-02-14man: document CPE field in os-release fileLennart Poettering
2012-02-13man: we don't support systems without /etc/os-release anymoreLennart Poettering
2012-02-13man: it's probably a good idea to wrap the ANSI color in quotes, in order to ↵Lennart Poettering
allow proper shell parsing of the semicolon
2011-06-15man: clarify os-release in regards to spaces a bitLennart Poettering
2011-04-21man: minor fixesLennart Poettering
2011-04-16hostnamed: introduce systemd-hostnamedLennart Poettering
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed
2010-12-20Fix misspellings in os-release manpage and hwclock-load.serviceMiklos Vajna
2010-11-22man: make clear that VERSION and VERSION_ID is not mandatory in os-release.5Lennart Poettering
2010-11-21man: document /etc/os-releaseLennart Poettering