Hi Paul,
Thank you for the reply. The information which you have provided is exactly
what I was looking for. This will help me resolve my problem.
Regards,
-Gautam
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:18 +0530, Gautam Shejwalkar wrote:
> > Yes, I was referring to the distro. Actually based on the distro I
> > want to decide which rpm package needs to be installed. B'coz only in
> > uname -r we get the information on the distro. I am not sure if there
> > are any other commands available for checking the distro type.
>
> uname -r returns the version of the kernel. _Some_ distros will build
> custom kernels and _some_ of them will put a reference to the distro
> name in the kernel name. But, this is very, very far from being a
> reliable test. People can rebuild their kernels for lots of reasons.
> Also some distros DON'T put a distro reference in the kernel name (on my
> Ubuntu 8.04 system for example, uname -r gives "2.6.24-21-generic").
>
> The best, most portable way to tell the distro name on a Linux system is
> with lsb_release; any LSB-compliant distro will have this command. You
> can see the options for details, but probably you want "lsb_release
> --id" if all you want is the distribution vendor ("Red Hat" etc.) or
> "lsb_release --description" if you want the distro version info.
>
> --
>
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