-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 October 2003 10:30, Mathieu Jobin wrote: > mjobin:~$ cat /etc/redhat-release > Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586 > mjobin:~$ > > is not that a bit stupid ?
not really. it's unfortunate people write scripts/software that expect an / etc/redhat-release file when they should be checking for /etc/*-release and / etc/*_version (at least on most Linuxes)... by having /etc/redhat-release (which is a symlink to /etc/mandrake-release) it ensures you can use Red Hat rpms and Red Hat centric code with ease. personally i wish there was a standard /etc/release_version file or some such that was named the same on every Linux OS; perhaps the LSB already covers that, haven't checked. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/khKw1rcusafx20MRAs1WAJ9X92z0gIjEbZbSlwbgqS5kL+Av5gCffJss bF8KvEk2BmBPYnXwWS/vBJA= =kbVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
