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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:54:22 +0200
From:      "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@gojira.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Find out OS version and plattform?
Message-ID:  <875zbvm5pt.wl-herbert@gojira.at>
In-Reply-To: <800241a1-ce3a-ce19-63f8-e9a77032a7f1@yuripv.dev>
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:20:09 +0200, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> It seems to be only in stable/12 and head at the moment, and it's
> /var/run/os-release by default.

That seems to be right.

And I had to run etcupdate to get /etc/os-release:

# etcupdate 
  A /etc/os-release

# file /etc/os-release 
/etc/os-release: symbolic link to ../var/run/os-release

Obviously the symlink is not created if you only run mergemaster.

--
Herbert



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