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On 13 Jun 2020, at 02:27, Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 13/06/2020 09:17, 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.

> Yeah.  It's been a thing for about 6 months.
>=20
> =
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/libexec/rc/rc.d/os-release?view=3Dlog=


But this file (neither file) exists in 12.1-RELEASE, so I would say it =
is at best an upcoming feature.




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