How to get the os-release of the image

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Hi,

we want to display the ubuntu core image version inside a snap.
When we reference /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release we get the information provided by the core snap that is defined in the base property of the snap. So a base: core20 snap would show core20 even the image is based on ubuntu core 18.

How to get the information from the actual os?

Thanks.

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While digging into it we found that system-observe interface provides the information in: /var/lib/snapd/hostfs/etc/os-release

Resolved.

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