Perhaps the best bet is just to use cat /etc/*-release
This way you don't need to guess at various flavor names. PS, there's a gentoo-release too. Even more interestingly, my Gentoo Server shows Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9 Which is pretty neat since it was originally installed as 1.2. I assume an emerge --update world brought it up to the more or less current spec at some point in the past. Do other distros do that too? IE, if I install RH 7, can I patch it up to 9 or would it need to have 9 installed as an upgrade? I guess it's a fuzzier line between patching and upgrading with Gentoo. That may not be a good thing for me. Hmmm. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Bruseker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: (clug-talk) With what am I dealing here?] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On September 18, 2003 9:30 am, Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > > Ian Bruseker wrote: > > >No distro release number. > > > > and the other suggestion ? > > > > cat /etc/SuSE-release > > > > > > Peter > > Ya, that one works fine. Gives this: > > SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) > VERSION = 8.2 > > Ian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/adM7SiY+RXI7JS4RAmRwAJwPjWY4PO3smha1Cd2Vcv0KShRgGwCg31VW > 50tPNw02p7rnVaTG6Yry/1A= > =Q0Xb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
