svn commit: r354922 - in head: etc libexec/rc libexec/rc/rc.d share/man/man5 sys/sys

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 21 06:31:30 UTC 2019


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:45:31PM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> New Revision: 354922
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/354922
> 
> Log:
>   Create /etc/os-release file.
>   
>   Each boot, regenerate /var/run/os-release based on the currently
>   running system. Create a /etc/os-release symlink pointing to this
>   file (so that this doesn't create a new reason /etc can not be
>   mounted read-only).
>   
>   This is compatible with what other systems do and is what the
>   sysutil/os-release port attempted to do, but in an incomplete way.

Thanks!  Hopefully, `sysutil/os-release' can be wiped out soon: not
just it was placed under wrong category, but it was badly and quite
unreadably coded.

./danfe


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