From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:52:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlink
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man: allow that /etc/os-release is a symlink
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diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 8ffb5de48..8cceae103 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@
                 <para>As this file only encodes names and identifiers
                 it should not be localized.</para>
 
+                <para>The file <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> might
+                be a symlink to another file, but it is important that
+                the file is available from earliest boot on, and hence
+                must be located on the root file system.</para>
+
                 <para>For a longer rationale for
                 <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> please refer to
                 the <ulink