From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Fri Nov 8 17:11:50 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9921B7EE9 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebecca@bsdio.com) Received: from muon.bsdio.com (muon.bluestop.org [65.103.231.193]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 478mys6lhYz4csh for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebecca@bsdio.com) Received: from muon.bsdio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.bsdio.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826A6A94D; Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:14:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from muon.bsdio.com ([127.0.0.1]) by muon.bsdio.com (muon.bsdio.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id s2Ew8-JNDN3H; Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:14:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.10.115] (unknown [10.0.10.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bsdio.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:14:28 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Creating /etc/os-release To: Warner Losh , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" References: From: Rebecca Cran Message-ID: <6f296606-9a9b-6a0d-a0be-3cb6261280f4@bsdio.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:11:48 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 478mys6lhYz4csh X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rebecca@bsdio.com has no SPF policy when checking 65.103.231.193) smtp.mailfrom=rebecca@bsdio.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.98 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[bsdio.com]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:209, ipnet:65.103.224.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-1.88)[ip: (-8.73), ipnet: 65.103.224.0/19(-0.59), asn: 209(-0.01), country: US(-0.05)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:11:50 -0000 On 11/7/19 11:10 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > A standard has evolved in other communities to communicate certain key > aspects of the system to interested parties. The /etc/os-release file. The > standard is defined here http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release and > here https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html . It > has become a de-facto standard for the graphical systems. Also, it's enough of a standard that it's supported in Solaris 11.4 - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37852/os-release-5.html . -- Rebecca Cran