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We're currently working on a new help menu in Cockpit.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/13376

The idea behind this menu is to give quick and easy access to system documentation. We want to provide help links for:
1. General OS documentation
2. Cockpit Web Console documentation
3. Specific area documentation, eg. the users page or the services page.

For the General OS documentation, we would like to use the DOCUMENTATION_URL value from /etc/os-release, as specified in the systemd documentation for os-release https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html#HOME_URL=

Fedora now ships a documentation URL in /etc/os-release that points to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/system-administrators-guide/

For RHEL I think the best high-level equivalent would be:
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/"
as this gives you a good general overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

I'll try to cook up a patch for this early next week.

Created attachment 1651874 [details]
patch to fix the issue

Thanks Andreas! I confirm that %{base_release_version} expands to exactly "8" and https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/ works.

https://projects.engineering.redhat.com/browse/RCM-79726

Providing qa_ack+. We can extend our redhat-release test to include this as well.

Peter, can you qa_ack this for 8.4?

Today checked out 8.4 compose and this is already present.
Thank you!

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (redhat-release bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1569