Hi,

Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:

> Le 01/09/2025 à 18:43, Pontus Goffe via Dng a écrit :
>>
>> At 2025-09-01 17:24 Didier Kryn wrote:
>>>     Well, on my system, ${OS_RELEASE}is not defined. Maybe it is
>>> built some way in the script. I didn't look.
>>
>> its defined on line 11 or 13 in the script.
>> Here they're both OK
>>
>> ls -la /etc/os-release /usr/lib/os-release
>
>     Yes! I hadn't noticed this file. There seems to be quite some
> redundancy in advertising OS version (~:

/etc/os-release is the culmination of the realization that
/etc/<distro>[-_]version isn't very portable.

Moving it to /usr/lib is an acknowledgment that system administrators
shouldn't be mucking around with its content. The symlink is there for
backwards compatibility.

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen