From the systemd os-release man page:

> /etc/os-release should be a relative symlink to /usr/lib/os-release,
> to provide compatibility with applications only looking at /etc/.

While systemd ships a tmpfiles dropin that will make the symlink, when
building e.g. portable service images, those might not have systemd
itself, and thus won't have the tmpfiles dropin. To make sure all Arch
images have the symlink, let's create it as part of the filesystem package
since we already ship /usr/lib/os-release in the filesystem package as
well.

We do this in a install script to avoid messing with any existing
/etc/os-release files or symlinks. For safety we only create the file
symlink if /etc/os-release is not yet a symlink and doesn't exist.

Alphabetically sorted arrays with one entry per line are easier to read.
Furthermore, git commits changing the files are easier to read as well.

Signed-off-by: David Runge <dvzrv@archlinux.org>

Robin Candau authored 11 months ago and David Runge committed 11 months ago

See detailed discussion around the reasons for this change:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/5GU7ZUFI25T2IRXIQ62YYERQKIPE3U6E/

Release various new changes:
- Add additional ld.so.conf dir with /usr/lib/ld.so.conf.d/
- Update root's shell to /usr/bin/bash
- Update BUG_REPORT_URL to new GitLab location

Update maintainer info.