Add DOCUMENTATION_URL as a standard value for /etc/os-release
authorStephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Oct 2018 12:19:18 +0000 (07:19 -0500)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Thu, 4 Oct 2018 19:29:18 +0000 (21:29 +0200)
commita3e0bba8a9d032413b8540f169cb83b5fd31fb7c
tree54969b930cfcdbb08d5254368f8ddf64b3b28609
parent880512fe6aed8c824c536994d71859ed9a76e5eb
Add DOCUMENTATION_URL as a standard value for /etc/os-release

It is very useful for distributions to be able to set a primary
documentation URL in a standard location so that users and
applications on the system can identify it. For example, many
headless systems these days use the "Cockpit" admin console. It
would be ideal if we could specify this location directly in the
os-release file so that any application or service could have a
well-known location for retrieving this and displaying it
appropriately. Users could likewise examine /etc/os-release to
learn this location.

Related: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/10198

Signed-off-by: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>
man/os-release.xml