Re: Installed lsb-release 1.3-1 (all source)

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

Is this supposed to show something useful even without an
/etc/lsb-release file?

All it's magic seems to hide behind /etc/lsb-release. If that file is
removed, the report looks like this:

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: n/a
Description:    LSB_VERSION=0.0
Release:        n/a
Codename:       n/a

It should be able to pick up a few things anyway, like:

- the existance of /etc/debian_version should indicate it's:

  Distributor ID: Debian
  Description:    Debian GNU/Linux

- the version number (2.2) in /etc/debian_version should give:

  Release:        2.2
  Codename:       potato

- lsb version could show the same thing like on woody: 0.0

   LSB Version:    0.0
   Distributor ID: Debian
   Description:    Debian GNU/Linux
   Release:        2.3
   Codename:       woody

Just wondering.

> Format: 1.7
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:11:41 +0100
> Source: lsb-release
> Binary: lsb-release
> Architecture: source all
> Version: 1.3-1
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: low
> Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
> Changed-By: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
> Description:
>  lsb-release - LSB release command
> Changes:
>  lsb-release (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * New upstream version
> Files:
>  4cf8dc675e6061c05e9311520f6b25ee 588 base standard lsb-release_1.3-1.dsc
>  d94b3d6e779680931518103ab21b8a67 10092 base standard lsb-release_1.3.orig.tar.gz
>  a3ae2319ba2d810199e9834bb8c61907 1236 base standard lsb-release_1.3-1.diff.gz
>  919013658445c00a1a3de774a4cb23ee 7436 base standard lsb-release_1.3-1_all.deb

Cheers,
Cristian

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