Re: [HTCondor-devel] /etc/os-release

[Oliver Freyermuth <freyermuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

yep, that file is pretty useful. But it's not really written by systemd to my knowledge, but it's rather a "config file" which systemd evaluates - 
it's even present on non-systemd systems. 

On CentOS, it's part of the CentOS release package:
centos-release-7-5.1804.el7.centos.2.x86_64

I also have that file on Gentoo, which never ever saw anything systemd, here it's shipped by:
sys-apps/baselayout-2.4.1-r2

Hare's the original blog post about it:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release
Many distros have adopted this useful file since then ;-). 

Cheers and HTH,
	Oliver


Am 28.06.2018 um 18:34 schrieb Greg Thain:
> 
> FYI, I just discovered this new file which systemd writes, /etc/os-release, which coalesces a lot of the distro-specific files like /etc/redhat-release, /etc/debian-version, etc. Here's an example:
> 
> This might be handy to use in our startd code and in day-to-day interactive debugging:
> 
> 
> $ cat /etc/os-release
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="8"
> VERSION="8 (jessie)"
> ID=debian
> HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/";
> SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support";
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/";
> 
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