Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:41:15 +0700
From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To: Felix Palmen <zirias@FreeBSD.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Get ${OSREL} at install time
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18.04.2023 16:34, Felix Palmen wrote: > * Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> [20230418 16:26]: >> 18.04.2023 15:05, Nuno Teixeira wrote: >>> Any sugestion or example that permits to get OSREL at install time? >> >> # osrel=$(sysctl -n kern.osrelease) > > Obtaining the information from the running kernel has the drawback of > possibly giving wrong results with pkg -c / pkg -r (installing in an > alternative root, e.g. a jail or boot environment). > > Therefore, parsing /etc/os-release should be preferred. Even better, we have freebsd-version -u
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