Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> Everybody can change this to something else. Isn't it better
> to implement a
> /usr/bin/debian-release
> that contains an option to get the real version number that
> is hard coded anywhere if /etc/debian_version was changed?
Why not just use lsb_release(1)?
makholm@makholm:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (etch)
Release: testing
Codename: etch
makholm@makholm:~$
But I have no idea where these information come from. According to
/etc/debian_version I'm running'lenny/sid'.
[... less /usr/bin/lsb_release ... ]
Hmmm, lsb_release seems to parse 'apt-cache policy' and hardcodes the
'testing is etch' connection.
//Makholm
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