On 03.02.26 10:29, Doug Rabson wrote: > Hi Robert, > > This is a bug in the release build - could you open a PR on > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ to track it. In the meantime, for > base images containing /bin/sh (e.g. ghcr.io/freebsd/freebsd-runtime > <http://ghcr.io/freebsd/freebsd-runtime>:<ver>), you can generate an > os-release file by running '/etc/rc.d/os-release start' - this can be > added to Containerfiles/Dockerfiles where /etc/os-release is needed. > > Doug. > > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 07:08, Robert Gogolok <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > during my ongoing work on FreeBSD support for buildpacks.io > <http://buildpacks.io>, I ran into a small question around > /etc/os-release in the official FreeBSD container images. > > In the current images, /etc/os-release is a symlink to > /var/run/os-release, but the target file is not present in the > image layers. Some container tooling (including parts of the > buildpacks ecosystem > > https://github.com/buildpacks/samples/blob/fa282af819c4b21f4c4d50d27486e21f70f55a68/base-images/build.sh#L68 > ) expects an os-release file to be available in the filesystem and > does not account for it being generated dynamically at runtime. > > I'm still fairly new to how os-release is intended to be handled > in FreeBSD (/etc/rc.d/os-release), so this is meant as an > exploratory question rather than a complaint. Looking at the > specification > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/os-release.html > it seems that most Linux distributions generate the file at > build/packaging time. > > > As a concrete idea: would it be reasonable to generate a static > os-release file as part of the OCI image build process (for > example in release/scripts/make-oci-image.sh), even if a > dynamically generated version still exists on full systems? > > I'd appreciate any background on the current design, and whether > such an approach would align with FreeBSD's goals for container > images. > > Best regards, > Robert > I haven't used a mailing list for a while so I initially only replied to Doug.
Thanks for your feedback. I've opened an issue athttps://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292915 Robert.
