On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:41:36PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello Aurelien, > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Aurelien Jarno<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the kfreebsd branch of the debian-installer we are using at some > > places uname to detect if we are running on GNU/Linux on GNU/kFreeBSD, > > when the script doesn't differ a lot. > > > > This is not something really clean, and I think that adding a --os > > option to udpkg (similar to the --arch option) could help. > > > > What do you think? > > Sorry but I fail to see the difference between calling uname and > udpkg. Can you provide an example how it would help? >
DEB_ARCH_OS returns 'linux' on GNU/Linux, and 'kfreebsd' on GNU/kFreeBSD, which is better than uname. It returns 'Linux' on GNU/Linux and 'GNU/kFreeBSD' on GNU/kFreeBSD. This means depending on the script, it has to be passed through: | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tr -d '/' -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
