Is it safe to change compat.linux.osrelease inside a jail?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:35 +0400):

> Hi!
>
>
> I'm porting some Fedora Core 6 applications. Since the FreeBSD
> package of a FC6 port should be build with non-default
> compat.linux.osrelease and pointyhat is using jails to create
> packages, here is the question at the Subject.
>
> I know it _may_ be changed (I've tried and succeeded). Can someone
> say that it's quite OK to do so (without bad effects to jail/host)?
> Sure I ask about -CURRENT.

Roman did some work to make this a per-jail feature. I haven't seen  
any obvious stuff in the code which would make using this a bad idea.  
So: there are no known side-effects to use this in a jail.

Bye,
Alexander.

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