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man: improve word usage and grammar in logind.conf(5)
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                                 identifying the operating system,
                                 excluding any version information and
                                 suitable for processing by scripts or
                                 identifying the operating system,
                                 excluding any version information and
                                 suitable for processing by scripts or
-                                usage in generated file names. If not
+                                usage in generated filenames. If not
                                 set defaults to
                                 <literal>ID=linux</literal>. Example:
                                 <literal>ID=fedora</literal> or
                                 set defaults to
                                 <literal>ID=linux</literal>. Example:
                                 <literal>ID=fedora</literal> or
                                 system version, excluding any OS name
                                 information or release code name, and
                                 suitable for processing by scripts or
                                 system version, excluding any OS name
                                 information or release code name, and
                                 suitable for processing by scripts or
-                                usage in generated file names. This
+                                usage in generated filenames. This
                                 field is optional. Example:
                                 <literal>VERSION_ID=17</literal> or
                                 <literal>VERSION_ID=11.04</literal>.</para></listitem>
                                 field is optional. Example:
                                 <literal>VERSION_ID=17</literal> or
                                 <literal>VERSION_ID=11.04</literal>.</para></listitem>
                                 <literal>BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"</literal></para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 <literal>BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"</literal></para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>BUILD_ID=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>A string uniquely
+                                identifying the system image used as
+                                the origin for a distribution (it is
+                                not updated with system updates). The
+                                field can be identical between
+                                different VERSION_IDs as BUILD_ID is
+                                an only a unique identifier to a
+                                specific version. Distributions that
+                                release each update as a new version
+                                would only need to use VERSION_ID as
+                                each build is already distinct based
+                                on the VERSION_ID. This field is
+                                optional. Example:
+                                <literal>BUILD_ID="2013-03-20.3"</literal>
+                                or
+                                <literal>BUILD_ID=201303203</literal>.
+
+                                </para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
 
                 </variablelist>
 
 
                 </variablelist>