On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 05:55 -0600, hal wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the middle of patching a bunch of systems (Ubuntu, Devuan and > Debian flavors) and noticed Devuan's /etc/os-release file doesn't > contain any VERSION tags. > > This file comes in handy for parsing from shell scripts when > lsb_release isn't installed or /etc/issue has been customized. > > Is this intended or just an oversight?
On Devuan/Beowulf: cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)" NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="3" VERSION="3 (beowulf)" VERSION_CODENAME=beowulf ID=debian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/" _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng