Hi Paul, Could you give more detail on what you are trying to do?
It sounds like you are trying to write a program or script that is portable across the various distros (or, how dated of me, multiple Unixes). That sort of portability is a GoodThing! Anyway, from your listing of the /etc/ release files it seems like you are on the road to an alogorithm and I just wanted to know what sort of problem you were currently addressing. On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why can't there be some standard way of discovering release > information from the various distributions? > > For example: > > RH has /etc/redhat-release > Mandrake has /etc/mandrake-release > Debian has /etc/debian_version > SuSE has /etc/SuSE-release > > And each one of them is completely different, to the point where > writing a script to provide uname(1) like output for the various > pieces of data one would care about from a distribution is almost > a futile effort. (actually, Debian in this case is the real pain, > since they don't even provide a release number!) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
