From f8964235e69f58225dec378437b1789744cd22a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 21:04:31 +0200
Subject: nspawn: explain that we look for /etc/os-release in the container
 directory

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64014
---
 man/systemd-nspawn.xml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man/systemd-nspawn.xml')

diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index e7c859d11d..cab5990a56 100644
--- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
@@ -133,6 +133,15 @@
                 <ulink
                 url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface">Container
                 Interface</ulink> specification.</para>
+
+                <para>As a safety check
+                <command>systemd-nspawn</command> will verify the
+                existance of <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> in
+                the container tree before starting the container (see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>). It
+                might be necessary to add this file to the container
+                tree manually if the OS of the container is too old to
+                contain this file out-of-the-box.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
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