On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:10:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I think the problem is that many generic scripts that attempt to capture the kernel version will not use 'uname -a', 'uname -rv', or similar. If they were to use /proc/version, that would be sufficient, but then the uname commands probably work for almost every other distribution. A generic script won't check package status (which in any case doesn't necessarily match the running kernel version).
I'd call it a simple expectation problem; people would like uname to say something like 2.6.32-34squeeze1 rather than "#1 SMP Wed May 18 07:08:50 UTC 2011" when they ask about the kernel version.
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