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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:31:30 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r354922 - in head: etc libexec/rc libexec/rc/rc.d share/man/man5 sys/sys
Message-ID:  <20191121063130.GA64098@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201911202345.xAKNjVEl038814@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201911202345.xAKNjVEl038814@repo.freebsd.org>

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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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