Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@fnord.no> writes: > The "/etc/lsb-release" file is owned by the "base-files" package, > which has priority "required" on Ubuntu Lucid (latest LTS release) and > Ubuntu Natty (latest release). It should therefore always be present, > on any Ubuntu installation (excluding administrative intervention, of > course).
Checking the availability and contents of the "base-files" package on the Ubuntu versions on "packages.ubuntu.com", I see /etc/lsb-release present on all supported ubuntu releases since 2006-06 (dapper), which is the oldest available release. I downloaded and unwrapped the dapper package, and it has the same format: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06 DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06 LTS" On can be an optimist, and assume they've not played silly buggers with the format between releases. I downloaded all the packages instead, and looked inside... ./base-files-3.1.9ubuntu7/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06 DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06 LTS" ./base-files-3.1.9ubuntu7.2/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06 DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS" ./base-files-4.0.1ubuntu5/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04" ./base-files-4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.8/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS" ./base-files-5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.2/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" ./base-files-5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.3/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS" ./base-files-5.0.0ubuntu23/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" ./base-files-5.0.0ubuntu28/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04" ./base-files-6.3ubuntu2/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)" -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
