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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 18:14:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 18:14:06 +0100 |
| commit | edcf3b8900b8cf46ec18233508452b5bb745dc74 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d43b50d9c5e1ba769c10763f5060bd4bf3270df /man | |
| parent | d383ac0d2f05bc1d13603c8bf4647b603fe85b1e (diff) | |
man: document how os-release(5) may be extended by OS vendors
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 019e48e03..36046833c 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -313,6 +313,12 @@ accommodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION and VERSION_ID may be unset. Applications should not rely on these fields to be set.</para> + + <para>Operating system vendors may extend the file + format and introduce new fields. It is highly + recommended to prefix new fields with an OS specific + name in order to avoid name clashes. Example: + <literal>DEBIAN_BTS="debbugs://bugs.debian.org/"</literal></para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |