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note on relative symlink in os-release

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Rahul Sundaram 2014-10-08 01:42:59 -04:00 committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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files at the same
time. <filename>/usr/lib/os-release</filename> is the
recommended place to store OS release information as
part of vendor trees. Frequently,
<filename>/etc/os-release</filename> is simply a
symlink to <filename>/usr/lib/os-release</filename>,
part of vendor trees.
<filename>/etc/os-release</filename> should be a
relative symlink to
<filename>/usr/lib/os-release</filename>,
to provide compatibility with applications only
looking at <filename>/etc</filename>.</para>
looking at <filename>/etc</filename>. A relative
symlink instead of an absolute symlink is
necessary to avoid breaking the link in a chroot or
initrd environment such as dracut.</para>
<para><filename>os-release</filename> contains data
that is defined by the operating system vendor and