Hi, On 09/12/2013 04:00 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote: > The "lsb-release" file is the new Linux standard so it is now in the list.
> I also added the "system-release" and "os-release" files since they are > an old standard. Actually, /etc/os-release is a fairly new thing [1] that is required by systemd. systemd is a new init system (among other things) used by a number of newer distributions, including Fedora >= 15, RHEL 7 [2], Arch Linux, and openSUSE [3]. So all these distributions now contain /etc/os-release. However, even distributions like Debian and Ubuntu (which only optionally support systemd) provide a valid /etc/os-release file [4]. In fact, on these distributions, perhaps it should be searched first, before any of the others. Unlike /etc/lsb-release, /etc/os-release is always guaranteed to be present on a base install of these distributions. I see that os_print_info is called by the error handler, so it probably doesn't matter, but since the format of /etc/os-release is standardized, it should be possible to seek and print just NAME and VERSION. Thanks, Omair [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html [2] http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/poettering_f_0945_getting_ready_for_systemd-the-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-service-manager.pdf [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/947236 -- PGP Key: 66484681 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = F072 555B 0A17 3957 4E95 0056 F286 F14F 6648 4681
