Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:54:22 +0200 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@gojira.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Find out OS version and plattform? Message-ID: <875zbvm5pt.wl-herbert@gojira.at> In-Reply-To: <800241a1-ce3a-ce19-63f8-e9a77032a7f1@yuripv.dev> References: <16b61b7a-a313-883a-067a-b424b488b2de@nebelschwaden.de> <cb90b4ed-1a1a-6a1f-a2f4-da19795ccdca@FreeBSD.org> <20200613091714.aa727af47134d742d6136118@sohara.org> <800241a1-ce3a-ce19-63f8-e9a77032a7f1@yuripv.dev>
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:20:09 +0200, Yuri Pankov wrote: > > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0100 > > Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > >> On 12/06/2020 10:03, Ede Wolf wrote: > >>> linux has something like /etc/os-release, which is a textfile, is there > >>> an equivalent [method] in FreeBSD? > >> > >> Yes. It's exactly the same. > > > > Since when ? There isn't one on my 12.1p3 box. > > It seems to be only in stable/12 and head at the moment, and it's > /var/run/os-release by default. That seems to be right. And I had to run etcupdate to get /etc/os-release: # etcupdate A /etc/os-release # file /etc/os-release /etc/os-release: symbolic link to ../var/run/os-release Obviously the symlink is not created if you only run mergemaster. -- Herbert
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