[yocto] Making /etc/os-release loadable by shell script

[Burton, Ross]

On 2 July 2015 at 09:00, Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen at innerrange.com> wrote:

> It would be good if the /etc/os-release file (created by the core
> os-release package) could be loadable by a shell script. That is, a shell
> script can do:
>
>     source /etc/os-release
> or
>     . /etc/os-release
>
> But it's currently not possible, because the file lacks double-quotes
> around values that would make it valid shell assignment syntax.


Could you transform you bbappend to a patch against oe-core and submit it?

Ross
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