Am 10.10.2012 10:11, schrieb Fabio M. Di Nitto: > [snip] > that doesn´t scale well for debian derivates that don´t ship > debian_version :) (see ubuntu & co..) > > You can´t even use something like "which dpkg" since the tool is > available on rpm based distributions... or viceversa.. there is rpm for > Debian & derivates. > > hardcoding all distributions is not optimal either, as they might change > policy by version.... > > Fabio >
What about 'lsb_release'? Is that executable available on all platforms? Heiko
