/etc/os-release isn't created

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:16 AM Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> wrote:

> Dear Committers,
>
> From: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org>
> Subject: Re: /etc/os-release isn't created
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:56:54 +0900 (JST)
>
> > I created patch adding logic that handles symbolik link to mergemaster
> > and submitted it to following bug report.
> >
> > Bug 242212 usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh: There is no logic to
> handle symbolic
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242212
> >
> > So please review and/or test it.
>
> Would someone please commit it? As is explained currently mergemaster
> doesn't handle symbolic links. And it causes that /etc/os-release
> symbolink link isn't created when it doesn't exit before upgrade and
> you upgrade base system with steps described in /usr/src/Makefile.
> It happens such cases as following.
>
> * 13-CURRENT before r354922 -> 13-CURRENT r354922 or later
> * 12.1-RELEASE -> 12.2-RELEASE
> * 11.4-RELEASE -> 12.2-RELEASE
>

I did some light testing and it seemed to work for me, so I've gone ahead
and committed it as r367810.

Thanks for the reminder.